Word: sayed
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...abruptly changed the situation by, among other things, extending federal price controls to so-called intrastate gas. That has made it just as profitable for a driller in, say, Oklahoma to sell his gas to a pipeline company that will transport it to Michigan as to a customer that will use it to generate electricity or heat a factory in Tulsa. This in turn has made available an estimated 1 trillion additional cubic feet of the fuel for sale in states such as Ohio, Indiana, and New Jersey, where it is needed most. One trillion cubic feet is roughly equal...
...main objection from farmers is that foreign buyers are paying excessively high prices. That in turn, say the opponents, pushes up the value of land owned and prevents young people from entering farming or expanding in the business...
...expert on budgets and unemployment patterns, Teeters is a liberal on most issues. Her vote on the Reserve Board could be critical in deciding whether to increase the risk of recession by letting borrowing costs continue to go up. Teeters is one of the few women economists who say that they did not encounter any discrimination in their rise to the top. "In fact," Teeters asserts, "while I was having three children, the Fed even created a part-time job so that I could continue working...
ISABEL V. SAWHILL, 41, is director of the National Commission for Manpower Policy, which advises Congress and the President on employment issues (operators who answer the commission's phones now say, "National Commission for Employment Policy," though Sawhill has not yet been able to make an official change from the rather sexist old name). A native of Washington, D.C., Sawhill received her economics doctorate from New York University, and remembers that she was often the only woman in her classes. She soon found that the best opportunity for advancement was in Government; and, since the late...
...when he hears that the U.S. is surrounded by problems, Lyet likes to recall the old line about what French generals say when informed that their armies are surrounded: "Wonderful! This means we can attack in any direction...