Word: surpluses
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...exchange for our natural gas being piped to the Eastern states [Feb. 7], we in the West urgently request their surplus snow, please...
...Federal Power Commission last year allowed the top price of natural gas piped across state lines to jump from 52? per 1,000 cu. ft. to $1.44, in an effort to prompt more production. The Emergency Natural Gas Act passed this month permits gas-short areas to buy from surplus areas at uncontrolled prices, and Eastern utilities are paying as much as $2.76 for gas piped in from California...
Locker-Room Melee. Most hassled by the star surplus are Guards Kevin Porter, Chris Ford, Ralph Simpson and Eric Money, all of whom have been starters during their careers. The season was still young when Porter and Simpson began muttering "play me or trade me" threats. Porter, who led the N.B.A. in assists two years ago, was unhappy over losing his starting slot to Eric Money. To show his displeasure, he had begun standing off to one side, staring at the rafters and pointedly ignoring Brown during time-outs. On the bench, he also plunked himself down as far away...
Along with all its energy shortages, the U.S. has one surplus-an abundance of public suspicion that natural-gas producers are holding down production to force prices up. In response to this feeling, several Government investigations were called last week to determine to what extent, if any, producers are deliberately withholding gas from the market. Interior Secretary Cecil Andrus sent a six-man team of investigators to Metairie, La., to examine the records of four offshore fields in the Gulf of Mexico that have reported sharp production declines. Says Andrus: "If it appears that gas has been withheld, then...
...read that Harvard has a $1 million surplus," one student said. The University has "enough money not to keep charging more," he said, adding that the rate of the increase seems disproportionately high compared to the rate of inflation...