Word: strikingly
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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Despite a two-day-old nationwide Teamsters Union strike that has interrupted trucking across the nation, Harvard's food and heating oil deliveries are likely to continue as usual, University officials said yesterday...
Frank J. Weissbecker, director of the Food Services Department, said yesterday the distributors who supply food to the University are responsible for delivery, and would probably use an alternative trucking company if the Teamster strike begins to affect their deliveries...
...added that since Harvard's supplies are delivered by rail, the strike, which affects food supplies delivered by trucking companies across state lines, probably will not interrupt Harvard's supplies...
...Buildings and Grounds official said yesterday that only if the strike grows within the next few weeks to include more local Teamster unions will it endanger the University's oil supplies...
...Carter Administration has hoped that a doubling of coal output by 1985 would reduce the U.S.'s dependence on foreign oil. But production has risen by only about 10% from last year's strike-depressed level of 654 million tons, and consumption of the fuel has remained stagnant. Coal today supplies about 18% of U.S. energy needs, an increase of less than 1% since 1973, the year of the Arab oil embargo. Meanwhile, mines have closed, expansion plans have been shelved and by industry estimates, up to 10% of the nation's more than 200,000 miners...