Word: topping
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...week, four out of the top ten books on the Times best seller list qualify as "science books." And most bear the birth-defects of their accelerated delivery--some are sensational, some scientifically irresponsible, others just badly written...
Harvard junior Dave Hanower also stayed unbeaten, capturing all three rounds at first foil. The loss to illness of top epee Rob Kaplan hurt the Crimson, although after losing the first round across the board, the three epees stormed back to take four of the remaining six matches...
...spot prices now hovering at $40 or more per bbl., nearly twice the maximum official OPEC price of $23.50 for oil sold under contracts of three months or more, OPEC members are clamoring for a hefty new increase when the cartel meets in Caracas on Dec. 17. Notes a top Carter Administration official: "Spot prices are the locomotive now dragging OPEC prices along." Adds Data Resources' Eckstein: "Our present forecast has OPEC prices going to $26 per bbl. during 1980, as a result of the current situation in Iran, and perhaps $29 in 1981. But if Iran...
While governments closed ranks behind the U.S. initiative, some private bankers were troubled that banking itself had become more deeply enmeshed in petropolitics. Remarked a top international financial adviser in London: "We have an awful lot of people worrying that if the Americans can do this today to Iranian money, what is to stop them from doing it with my money tomorrow...
...lessen the chances of making errors, Reagan carefully prepared for the battle during the months that he delayed making his formal announcement. He has kept on top of current events, and made sure his name has stayed familiar by writing a column of commentary for 105 newspapers and broadcast messages for 270 radio stations. He has traveled half a million miles since last March as a dinner speaker, charging up to $10,000 for each appearance and raising some $3 million for local Republican candidates. In recent months he has spent several hours a week being briefed intensively on both...