Word: shellful
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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Last week two more oil majors, following the lead of Exxon and Texaco, announced that they were gloomy enough over the continuing world oil shortfall to begin rationing fuel to big customers. Phillips Petroleum and Shell, the nation's largest gasoline seller, have either cut refinery output or reduced dealers' delivery allocations; the cuts range from Shell's maximum of 8% to Phillips' much more drastic 30%. And the reductions could get worse. "After the second quarter, it's anybody's guess what will happen," says an Exxon spokesman...
...walked up the road to Ranger Bill. Ranger Bill said. "Uh. well look--your car was probably towed by the Lincoln police," and we said. "Uh, well look--where would they have towed it to, perchance?," and he said. "Uh, well they probably, uh, towed it out to the Shell station out there on Route?" and we said. "Uh, well how far is that?," and he said. "Well, it's about six miles that way--just keep walking...
...been causing a worldwide petroleum shortfall of approximately 2.5 million bbl. a day. That is almost exactly the same amount that was lost during the 1973 Arab embargo, and oil companies are being forced to dip ever deeper into their inventories to make up for it. Last week Texaco, Shell and British Petroleum announced delivery cutbacks to their worldwide customers because of the supply pinch. In the U.S., current stockpiles amount to a 70-day supply for crude. Said Schlesinger to the Senate committee: "As we reach 60 days, one should get quite nervous...
...life: he has allowed his characters to operate spontaneously and then permitted his films' meanings to grow out of the crazy-quilt action. This time around he has done the reverse. The characters are constricted by a trite, preconceived moral and soon become inanimate pawns in a pseudointellectual shell game. Quin tet is designed to stimulate superficial cocktail party chatter rather than to provoke an audience's hearts or minds. Altman has toyed with this method once before, in the disastrous denouement of the otherwise vivid 3 Women, but he has never let such pedantry overwhelm an entire...
...skilled labor force already employed, the agency is training people from the unemployment lists to install the solar systems. In addition, they have given all their orders for solar equipment to small businesses that are being bought up by oil giants like Atlantic Richfield, Mobil Oil, and Shell Oil. This is a particularly ominous trend as these companies have an interest in seeing that solar technology is not marketed until their oil, coal, and nuclear resources are exhausted...