Word: sales
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...from countries that have little if any oil of their own and seem willing to pay any price for supplies. As Nazih was speaking, a tanker was reportedly loading 300,000 tons of crude at Iran's Kharg Island for Japan at the new, extortionate price. The easy sale could well tempt other producing nations to post similar price increases in the days ahead...
Preserving libraries, museums, and laboratories. The fund drive will incorporate the Fogg Museum's "mini-drive" currently underway, and will provide money for library upkeep. It also seems the Peabody Museum is slated to receive some money from the drive, after the recent controversy over the sale of a collection of paintings to pay for a conservation system for the museum's collections. The total funding for libraries and museums from the drive will amount to about $33 million...
...Mexico arbitrarily have backfired. Since President Lopez Portillo's visit to Washington D.C. in early 1977, relations between the U.S. and Mexico have progressively deteriorated. When Carter vetoed a privately negotiated agreement to buy Mexican oil at $2.60 a barrel, Mexico proudly announced that its oil was not for sale at a lower price, rerouted pipelines originally bound for the U.S., and signed contracts with France and Canada. When the Immigration and Naturalization Service (INS) announced its plans to build a fence between Juarez and El Paso, which a spokesman for the construction firm said would have edges sharp enough...
Sure there are shortcomings. Housing is scarce. Even the most vocal Wichita cheerleaders admit to a certain provincialism. Bible Belt conservatives have barred the public sale of liquor by the drink. But the city is on a culture kick. In the past decade, Wichita has opened a flying saucer-shaped civic center that dominates downtown, a 12,200-seat coliseum for conventions and cattle shows, one of the nation's better Indian museums, two art museums, a planetarium, a zoo and three new libraries. That hardly makes the community a rival to, say, Chicago. Yet almost everything...
...sign on the bulletin board at Seattle's Romac Industries, a pipefitting manufacturer, stood out from the usual mimeographed ads of cars for sale. It was Welder Tim Baker's appeal for a 45? hourly raise. "I'm requesting this increase because of inflation," he wrote alongside a color photo of himself busy welding a stainless-steel clamp. "The cost of living keeps going up, and the pay's the same. I work hard-just ask me. P.S.: Girls cost more to take...