Word: seven
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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Though the Seven Sisters dominate the industry, their influence and power are actually being cut down by the energy upheavals of the 1970s. This winter the worldwide shortage of crude has encouraged one nation after another, and numerous independent oil firms, to deal directly with OPEC, in effect short-circuiting the big multinationals. Says Thornton Bradshaw...
Though the companies are only doing what is necessary to keep the oil flowing, their public-image difficulties are compounded by one economic fact that no oilman can explain away: for better or for worse, the Seven Sisters, and many of their smaller competitors as well, have interests that are often parallel to those of the price-gouging OPEC cartel...
Warner Cable Corp. is testing in Columbus a "two-way" cable system that enables viewers to talk back to their sets by pressing buttons on a hand-held console (price: $10.95). The programs are local news and talk shows on which performers ask questions of the audience. Every seven seconds a master computer scans the 30,000 homes getting the service and tallies how many are pressing a yes and how many a no button; the response totals are flashed on the screen...
With no score in the bottom of the sixth (doubleheader games are only seven innings long), Dartmouth sparred Harvard starter Larry Brown for three two-out runs on four consecutive hits. "I had been going almost too smooth up to that point. I got the first two men and then I had the next guy (Dartmouth DH Mike "Bull' Durham) 3-and-2 before I got my slider up and he hit it. It was kind of a shot put and after that I lost my concentration," Brown said afterwards...
...Crimson then figured there had been enough excitement. Tim Clifford shut the door on the Big Green in the final two innings, while the batsmen scored seven runs on four hits and an obscene number of walks to put the Haves and Have-nots back in their rightful places...