Word: thousands
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...energy and worry," Many students write 30 page papers in one semester, she points out--so why not 60 pages in two semesters? The key, according to Rosenblum, is to start on the writing before all the research is completed; otherwise, she says, "you have a thousand file cards and notes, and you sit down over Christmas vacation, and it's overwhelming." She admits that it is difficult to write while one is still doing research, but not impossible if every book read is related, in writing, to a central "thesis" argument that the writer has written out beforehand...
...fight last week stemmed from Carter's proposal to 1) retain federal price controls on natural gas sold across interstate lines but 2) raise the ceiling from $1.47 to $1.75 per thousand cubic feet (m.c.f). That scheme made it through the House, but the gas industry's friends in the Senate wanted to abolish controls altogether, which would leave the price to be set by free-market forces. Byrd plumped for Carter's bill. He sensed, however, that he would lose in the Senate, which would vote to lift price ceilings. Nonetheless, he figured that any decontrol...
...matter which proposal Congress finally accepts on natural gas, prices will almost certainly go up. How much, no one knows for sure. About half the homes and 40% of the industries in the U.S. use natural gas. The current federal price ceiling is $1.47 per thousand cubic feet (m.c.f.) for gas that is sold across state lines. Gas that is produced and sold within the same state is not subject to federal price controls and fetches anywhere fron $2.00 to $2.25 per m.c.f...
...matter how much artillery fire they poured into Khiyam-and the bombardment reached a thousand rounds a day -the Israelis could not dislodge the defenders. At the height of the action, 200 Israelis faced about the same number of Palestinians. Both sides fought bravely, but on that battleground the Israelis would have needed a lot more soldiers than they had to dislodge the Palestinians...
DIED. Hans Habe, 66, Hungarian-born author (A Thousand Shall Fall) and journalist who once enraged Adolf Hitler by disclosing that his real name was Schicklgruber; of a glandular ailment; in Locarno, Switzerland. Habe fought in both the French and U.S. armies in World War II and during the Allied occupation was named overseer of German newspaper publications. Called "a born novelist" by Thomas Mann, Habe wrote a score of widely translated books and, by his own count, some 10,000 articles...