Word: thousands
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...excruciatingly hard work leaving women out. We started with a list of more than a thousand remarkable women, than narrowed it to 300. Painfully, we worked that down to the 166 presented here...
...jurisdiction only over gas transported from state to state. Intrastate gas is not price controlled at all and averages $1.54 per thousand cu. ft. Since interstate gas is priced at either 29.5? per thousand cu. ft. (for gas discovered before 1973) or 52? (for "new" gas discovered since then), producers are inclined to sell their gas within the state in which it was found. To make interstate sales more profitable-and dampen consumption at the same time-the FPC lifted the price of new gas to $1.01 per thousand cu. ft. for gas found...
...that is enabling the South Koreans to win out. Labor recruitment is the big headache in most contract negotiations throughout the area. But manpower is an abundant and exportable Korean resource. In Iran, where South Korean contracts have zoomed from zero in 1974 to $72.6 million in 1976, a thousand Koreans work as long-haul truck drivers. The 1,200 Koreans building a 100-mile stretch of highway in Saudi Arabia work ten hours a day, 28 days a month for $1,100 (five times their pay back home) and fly to Cairo every two months for three riotous days...
Scientific knowledge has placed unparalleled power in politicians' hands. Our capacity to see that it is used for good is scarcely better than it would have been if man had possessed that power two thousand years ago. Our criteria for judgement are still so often inappropriate to the circumstances. What does this say of the way in which we have pursued learning and understanding? What we need more than anything is an adequate recognition of ourselves...
...also learned that the FBI's exhibit section, which is supposed to assemble models of buildings for use as evidence in trials, refurbished houses for Hoover and other bureau officials free of charge. In the 1960s, for example, the section's carpenters added a porch worth several thousand dollars to Hoover's home...