Word: set
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...meaningless except to the can didates, the political groupies, the press. On the windblown streets, with snow stacked at the curbs and down the center strip, people all seem to be blimp-shaped, wrapped in navy or rust or blue quilted suits. In motels, freezing guests set thermostats at 90°-but the mercury never touches 60° all night...
...Irwin Allen's ultimate disaster movie, The Day the World Ended, with Newman and William Hoiden, Bisset's reel-life idyl was interrupted by real-life meteorological aberrations. Not only were there earthquakes, but the usually sun-washed Kona coast was lashed by heavy rains that set back filming and added another $2 million to the $20 million budgeted. Bisset and Newman, during one interruption in the shooting, were caught by photographers making comparisons that were more odd than odious...
...project would have enabled Alaskan production, presently set at 1.2 million bbl., daily, to increase to a full 1.6 million bbl., and thus help reduce dependence on foreign oil. Without the pipeline, it would be difficult to raise the North Slope output: the West Coast is already overflowing with Alaskan crude, and Sohio is having to ship some 350,000 bbls. a day of it via tanker through the Panama Canal, a process that adds up to $1 per bbl. to the cost. What is more, oil companies are barred from exporting Alaskan oil, even if the purpose...
...regime in Cambodia was truly despotic. The forcible de-population of the cities and re-organization of the population into labor camps was a grotesque caricature of "peasant socialism" and will surely not be missed by the Cambodian people. The Vietnamese have set up a regime which pledges to do away with the old regime's irrational xenophobia and atavism, and they have not been met by popular resistance. Our conclusion therefore is that history will decide the national destiny and justice of relations between Vietnam and Cambodia...
...murder among Houston's very rich. Gent excels at capturing vignettes of that life--the celebrity fishing tournament, a Dallas businessman winking over hiscoke spoon the while his Mercedes is stopped at a traffic light. And Gent tries mightily to give the book some vision, tying his Neiman-Marcus set into a cocaine smuggling ring of heroic proportions, furnishing it with an ex-astronaut lackey who becomes the unwitting victim of his employer's pesticide...