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...reason for that optimism is the brightened energy outlook. World oil supplies are ample, and the price of crude is more likely to sink than spurt. In an effort to raise cash, several members of the Organization of Petroleum Exporting Countries have been overshooting their production quotas and offering customers discounts off the cartel's $34-per-bbl. official price. "OPEC's quota and pricing system may be on the verge of breaking down," said Board Member James McKie, an economics professor and energy expert at the University of Texas. If that happens, McKie added, oil prices could...
...Crimon had burst in an early 18-10 lead after a 12-2 spurt near start of the game. But the offense turned cold, as Dartmouth shut down Haevard for 7:19 during a 12-point run that gave it a 32-28 lead before half time...
...with the score 4-3 in Harvard's favor midway through the first quarter, the hosts went on a rampage, scoring 10 of the next 12 goals. When the spurt was over, the Crimson had a nine-goal halftime lead, on its way to a 24-16 victory, and as they say at Boston Garden, school...
...record 38.81 points, to 831.24, on a volume of 92.86 million shares. Exhausted but elated, the traders cheered lustily, tossed confetti into the air and kept the bar at the stock exchange restaurant open until 8 p.m., an hour after its usual closing time. The one-day spurt eclipsed the old mark of 35.34 set on Nov. 1, 1978, when President Carter announced his emergency program to boost the value of the dollar on foreign exchange markets...
...high at 5 a.m., the air already very hot. The day begins with a spurt of machine-gun fire and a shriek in the street, followed by a low moaning. One learns that these sounds are normal. Late yesterday afternoon, a car bomb exploded a few blocks from the hotel, killing two, shooting a gray-white pillar of smoke into the sky, which turned black before vanishing. Destruction is everywhere. An apartment house on a corner is cracked in the middle like a bone. It sags and heaves. Fragments of cement and wire hang from the structure at impossible angles...