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...present, the big companies control each stage of the petroleum process: pumping, transport, refining, marketing. Blair would break them up into companies specializing in only one phase of the petroleum process. Ideally, each company would then haggle over price each time the oil changed hands and would thus unleash free-market forces that would push prices down...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: BOOKS: Spanking the Sisters | 2/28/1977 | See Source »

...yesteryear-that is, the late '50s and early '60s-is simply uncontrollable, you could do worse than spend a couple of hours with Twilight's Last Gleaming. In it, a gang of desperate men seize a SAC missile silo in the Far West and threaten to unleash its contents on Russian targets, thus precipitating World War III, unless the President of the U.S. accedes to their demands...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Cinema: Cinema, Feb. 21, 1977 | 2/21/1977 | See Source »

Writing Cook. Because Roots is a black family reunion of sorts, Haley sees some distinct differences in why whites and blacks are so attracted by it. Discounting speculation that his work would unleash black rage, Haley says, "I've not heard one murmur of radicalization from blacks. I have heard ebullience and happiness that the story has been told. The blacks who are buying books are not buying them to go out and fight someone, but because they want to know who they are. Roots is all of our stories. It's the same for me or any black...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Race: Haley's Rx: Talk, Write, Reunite | 2/14/1977 | See Source »

...fewer than 215 occasions since the end of World War II, the U.S. has seriously threatened to unleash some of its military might-from a single warship to a nuclear strike force-in order to gain diplomatic leverage. In the same period, the Soviet Union has rattled its sabers 115 times. This means that the two superpowers have gone to the brink of war-or made it look as if they were preparing to go to the brink-an average of nearly once a month since...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: DIPLOMACY: To the Brink and Back 330 Times | 1/17/1977 | See Source »

...begins to respond to her unaffectedly, and Carrie is suddenly living a dream of romance long cherished. Their waltz, full of discovery and promise, is a very touching thing. It is especially poignant since the audience knows what those vicious girls are planning and suspects what havoc Carrie will unleash in response...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Cinema: A Movable Feast | 11/8/1976 | See Source »

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