Word: spurs
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...spur of the moment jazz notices, tune in WBUR...
...year, it essentially maintains oil price controls through 1978, allowing U.S. oil to rise from its controlled level of about $7.50 per bbl. (compared with the current world price of about $13) only in small annual jumps. Critics charge that this pace is too sedate to discourage consumption or spur production significantly, considering the enormous costs and risks involved. A current example: last week, in the first auction of East Coast offshore drilling rights, oil companies bid $1.14 billion for leases on 154 undersea tracts off New Jersey and New York from which oil will not begin flowing-if indeed...
...Bonn continues to push for European unity. European cooperation is unanimously supported by the German people. Unlike France and Great Britain, the direct election of a European Parliament is not a controversial issue in Germany. Most Germans would accept a reduction of national sovereignty if it would spur European integration. Bonn considers the defense of German economic interests to be far more important than a French-style reaffirmation of national independence--a vague concept which has little meaning or support in the Germany of today...
...Blue Line is the baby of the system, a spur from downtown out to the Revere area, with only 12 stops of its own. The line has a suburban feel to it, because of its new stations with their shiny benches and photographic murals. For most college students, it serves as a link to the airport, ferrying people into the Green and Orange Lines...
With the possible exception of the CIA, no United States invention has stirred more emotion, suspicion and criticism round the world than the modern multinational corporation. Many of the complaints are unjustified and highly exaggerated. Nonetheless, there have been enough genuine episodes of corporate misbehavior to spur demands for bringing the companies under stricter control...