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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...prophets had predicted?and perhaps worse. The cartel's complex system of base quotes and surcharges works out to an average price of between $20 and $21 per bbl.?up 15% just from last week, 50% since Jan. 1, and 1,000% from the $1.80 price at the start...
That was what the government chiefs did?sort of. Carter announced a target of holding U.S. imports through 1985 at 8.5 million bbl. a day. That would be slightly more than the nation is importing now and considerably more than it brought in last year, when the start of shipments from Alaska temporarily held down imports. But it would be a low enough ceiling to force curtailment of some cherished petroleum-wasting habits such as lavish outdoor lighting displays, and it might extend or worsen the present prospects of recession. The Europeans accepted the principle of setting country-by-country...
...continuously portrayed ... as a young, unmarried girl," says the complaint. To portray her as pregnant is "degrading and offensive ... and tends to destroy the wholesome image." The next thing you know, Dick Tracy will sell out to the mob, Daddy Warbucks will go broke, and Charlie Brown will start pitching no-hitters...
...hands or the proud big bird that dug its claws into the Secretary's shoulder as they posed together for photographers. The birds were peregrine falcons, and the news was that the Interior Department is going to shelter four of them at its Washington headquarters as a start toward bringing falcons back to the U.S. East Coast, where they were once numerous. That was heartening news for almost everyone except the capital's pigeons. When peregrines are not digging claws into Interior Secretaries, pigeons are what they love...
None of this daunts Baryshnikov. "When I am onstage, the partner, the orchestra, everything matters. The power to take responsibility is the difference between being rich and well and poor and sick." He plans to start work on classics. "That is where my strength and my training are," he says. "I will find new choreographers. I do not intend to use A.B.T. as some training ground for myself...