Word: spending
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...beach bully of the art world. For some of us, precisely Woody Allen's redeeming feature is that he places himself on the 'before' side; he knows that it's good to be able to laugh at yourself, but it's better not to find yourself needing to spend all your time in this pastime. Hence the nimbus of gloom on all his films. Certainly few people would recognize what makes Allen so popular in the tone Yacowar wields...
Calgary is already the headquarters for 483 of the 587 oil and gas companies that have main offices in the country. It is not hard to spend $250,000 for a four-bedroom house, but heating bills in Alberta average only $27 a month, and gasoline sells for 53? a gal. Thanks to energy royalties, Alberta is Canada's only province with no sales or gasoline taxes. Its property and income taxes are the lowest of any province; for a family of four earning $17,000, the overall tax burden is $912 a year, vs. $2,130 in Quebec...
...from tar sands. A group headed by Shell has won approval for another project that will cost close to $5 billion and help lift output from the sands to an expected 500,000 bbl. daily by 1985. Meanwhile, Exxon's Imperial Oil plans to spend more than $5 billion to produce oil from heavy crude. These projects may be stretched out if some recent finds of conventional petroleum elsewhere prove more financially attractive. Some oilmen believe that two offshore strikes, in the Arctic's Beaufort Sea and along the Newfoundland coast, could prove to be of Middle East...
...tournament practice," the sixth of ten levels, the Challenger is supposed to average three minutes of thought for each move, but in dodgy situations it will brood for 15 minutes or so, and the human player may well choose to spend his time worming the dog or writing a threatening letter to the telephone company. The machine itself does not yet have a dog or a typewriter, and it becomes impatient within a couple of minutes when its opponent is thinking. Then it says, gruffly, "Enter-your-move." There is a useful voice turn-off button for such moments. Except...
...wrestlers breezed through the first three divisions with Paul Widerman, Andy McNerney and Fritz Campbell chalking up expected wins over the Wesleyan lightweights. Only McNerney, whose unorthodox style forces him to spend time with his back too close to the mat for comfort, had a moment of trouble before flattening the Cardinals' 126-pounder, Steve White, after...