Word: stockely
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...some 600 pharmaceutical items from Japan, ranging from aspirin to antibiotics. It is importing U.S.-manufactured oil-drilling equipment from Rumania and could obtain spare automobile parts from a General Motors Corp. assembly plant in any third country. True, the shops in Tehran may no longer be able to stock imported items like detergents, disposable diapers and tooth paste, and there are occasional shortages of bread, eggs, meat and other items. But otherwise, there is scarcely any sign in the city of the U.S. economic squeeze...
...Iran shortfall actually will not register until January, and while it may cause a gasoline shortage early next year, Washington describes heating-oil reserves as being above 1978 levels and higher than the "projected normal stock range." The fact is that less heating oil has been ordered by customers so far this year than during the same period in 1978. A relatively warm November has helped, but the Department of Energy gives much of the credit for the shrinkage in demand to high prices that in turn have led to greater conservation efforts. Citizens are discovering that plugging holes...
...were watching the whole scene from up near the ceiling." That kind of report raises fears for the stability of the American hostages in Iran, who have been under pressure six weeks longer than Siegel's group of captives. One sign of stress is known as the "Stock-holm syndrome," and on the basis of public comments by Quarles and Corporal William Gallegos, psychologists believe it has taken hold among the hostages. The syndrome is a kind of bonding between captors and captives, and is named for a Stockholm bank robbery in 1973 in which the hostages came...
...producer and distributor of some 9.5 million bbl. of crude per day, Aramco is by far the world's largest oil-producing corporation. It is not required to publish financial records because its stock is not publicly traded. But by expert estimates, during the past two years Aramco has paid between $800 million and $900 million annually to its four shareholders, as well as providing them with lucrative tax benefits...
...raise a bit more than $2.5 million. A bank arranged $1.85 million in loans guaranteed by the Small Business Administration and the Economic Development Administration, and the city contributed $750,000 (by buying 33 of the plant's acres). Six managers bought $100,000 worth of Republic stock, or 40% of the total. Later about 90 other employees invested $70,000 in the shares...