Word: totaled
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...effect have already decided to pile another price increase on top of the 35% rise that they have put into effect since December. The only question is how large it will be. Prevailing guess: the "marker" price will go up to $20 per bbl., from $14.54 now, bringing the total increase since December, when the price was $12.70, to about 50%. Still unsettled is the question of whether that will be a unified charge or merely a base to which individual OPEC members will add surcharges; such surcharges now bring the average OPEC price to around...
Illinois Senator Charles Percy, among others, wonders if the whole grandiose scheme is worth it, particularly since the Federal Government has been stuck with 75% of the total cost. When Percy asked the General Accounting Office to evaluate the system, it produced a six-volume report recommending that the Federal Government pull out because of the project's high costs and dubious effect...
...national elections, to 29.6% in the Euro-elections. The Christian Democrats also fell from 38.3% in the national election to 36.5% in voting for the new Parliament. But they could boast that the local ticket headed by Emilio Colombo, outgoing Parliament president, rolled up an impressive total of 860,000 votes, thereby boosting his chances to continue in office at least during the new Parliament's important formative stages...
...Europe." In an election that produced a voter turnout of only 32%, the Tories took 60 of the country's 81 seats, leaving the Laborites with only 17. Saddest of the losers were the Liberals. Though they gained 1.7 million votes, or 13.1% of the British total, the Liberals won no seats at all because Britain eschewed the proportional representation method of allotting seats that prevailed elsewhere...
Until the denouement, viewers who want to believe that lunatics are not standard intelligence figures can clutch Falk's own statement that the agency had kicked him out and the confirmation of a CIA higher-up whom Arkin calls. "The man's a total lunatic-I'd advise you to keep as far away from him as possible," Arkin is told...