Word: stick
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...Though that alone would fatten OPEC'S already bulging bank accounts with an additional $20 billion annually from the U.S., Western Europe and Japan, as well as more foreign exchange from the have-not nations of the Third World, the cartel also moved to allow individual members to stick on whatever price-gouging surcharges and premiums they think they can get away with. That made official policy a tactic that many producing countries have been following all winter anyway. Finally, as if to add insult to financial injury, the OPEC representatives went out of their...
...achieved its new 9% boost by putting into effect on April 1 a series of phased increases that had been planned for the rest of 1979. There were worrisome signs that the OPEC countries, including Saudi Arabia, Iraq and other producers, were determined to make their new price offensive stick by limiting production now that Iranian output is once again climbing. Bragged Iraq's fiery Oil Minister, Tayeh Abdul-Karim: "No one country can affect this market now. As Iran's production goes up again, ours will go down...
Harvard's superior talent and stick-work overpowered Middlebury's Division II-III players. "Middlebury could not sustain the pressure of our pace," coach Bob Scalise said after the game...
...defense could not contain Kent, who used quick cuts and fakes to lose her defender around the crease. Kent often took advantage of her height and superior stick work to score high over the head of her defender. Her four goals in the opening minutes put the Crimson out in front 7-1 at the half...
...defense concentrated on double teaming the Eagles, whose poor stickhandling caused them to make sloppy turnovers. By careful positioning, the Crimson easily denied their opponents the chance to receive all but the most accurate passes. Sophomore Chris Sailer continued to annoy the opposition with competent stick checking and tight shadow-like defense...