Word: spurs
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...half what they could pump. Oddly enough, they would be doing the U.S. a kind of favor if they did follow that strategy: American imports of oil in 1985 would drop to 3.5 million bbl. a day, from 6.3 million now. Reasons: the high prices would discourage import demand, spur a vast expansion in Alaskan oil production in secondary and tertiary recovery of oil from existing fields, and in offshore oil development. It also would make the widescale gasification and liquefaction of coal economically attractive. More likely, the FEA experts calculate, the price of oil will drop...
...transplanted many passages straight from the diary into books, yet they remain most striking in their original context. She often wrote on the spur of the moment--in the Paris metro, on an Acapulco beach--wherever she could prop a notebook, with an unusual felicity for sifting and sorting incidents barely finished. Most of us don't venture beyond the word "nothing" in summing up our day, but Anais reports her contacts and conversations with dauntless agility. Like Miller, she has discovered that unabashed observers fascinate people because they've learned to wade daringly into ideas and only skim...
Kain said yesterday that the study group also recommended levying "some kind of financial penalty" on auto companies which failed to meet their suggested deadlines. He said this would "spur the industry on" to discover better emission-control devices...
...always wrenching in a one-party state, of a transferal of supreme state power. But Mao Tse-tung is now 81; although apparently in command of his party, he is physically very feeble. His much heralded meetings with foreign dignitaries, held usually in his book-lined study, are always spur-of-the-moment affairs, apparently because his doctors never know when he will be strong enough to take the strain of a visit. Last week he had an unscheduled meeting with Mrs. Ferdinand Marcos, wife of the Philippine President. A few weeks ago, he went to the seaside resort...
...insist that they are still prepared to enact laws to enforce wage-price restraints if necessary. They are also calling for strict control of public spending and for a more moderate growth of the money supply. These measures could probably slow the surge in prices, but they would also spur greater unemployment. Thus the Tories' proposals are hardly designed to change the conviction of many union members that Heath has governed on behalf of the middle classes at the expense of the working people. Heath hopes that the specter of another Labor government will bring back to the fold...