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...OPEC VIEW. Jamshid Amuzegar, Iran's Minister of Interior, explained that the Persian Gulf countries have for years watched the prices of wheat and manufactured goods soar...
...even that proposal must still get final approval in the Senate and then the House, where it faces strong opposition. AFL-CIO President George Meany and other union leaders are putting heavy pressure on Democrats to kill all controls, which they contend held wages down while letting corporate profits soar. In the same vote, the Senate also endorsed a measure to create a new agency to replace the COLC. It would have power to call public attention to inflationary moves by companies, unions and the Federal Government, and even subpoena businessmen and labor leaders to public hearings. But it could...
Saundra Graham, chairman of the Cambridge City Council Committee on Housing, said the city "will be in terrible trouble when the law expires," predicting local rents will soar dramatically...
Local rents can be expected to soar dramatically, she said...
...matter-of-fact style, Moorhouse tells what it is like to cope with temperatures that soar past 130° by day and drop below freezing at night. He describes the stunning beauty of desert sunsets and the soporific, swaying movement of the camel. He can make a reader comfortably fixed with a Scotch in his hand share the blessed glee of finding brackish water dotted with camel dung that is worth more than gold or oil in a sea of sand...