Word: upon
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...mostly true what you say about Maui [March 26], but there are some flaws in Paradise: the tourists are so thick on West Maui that they get into each other's snapshots. Fortunately, the island is critically dependent upon the jets flying. If oil slows, the happy squeaks will be from the residents able finally to rust in peace...
...toll-free Government locks at Sault Ste. Marie are another disguised subsidy to the steel industry. There should be a toll at the Soo Locks similar to that imposed upon cargo passing through the Panama Canal...
...step that the President is able to take. By allowing domestic crude prices to rise to world levels, Carter has sent a clear signal to the nation's trading partners and allies that the U.S. is at long last beginning to face up to the difficult decisions forced upon it by the energy squeeze. The President's speech was widely praised in other oil-consuming countries, and the mere anticipation of what he was going to say sent the dollar soaring in Japan, gold slumping in Europe and stock prices on Wall Street leaping to their best levels...
...Upon his return to Chicago he began practicing on what had been Camp Douglas during the Civil War. using the leftover ration cans as cups. In 1895 he designed the Chicago Golf Club. Yale is one of MacDonald's masterpieces, one of the premier university courses, and is ranked in Golf Digest magazine's Top One Hundred Courses...
...members of the Kennedy School's Visiting and Advisory Committees are corporate executives of partners in corporate law, management or investment firms. This is in spite of official University policy that Visiting Committees comprise persons who "are knowledgeable and experienced in the fields which they are called upon to examine." A Business School organ, happily echoing Allison's speech, said, "Now the two schools are moving closer together, both intellectually and physically..." The ARCO Forum is a symbol of this alliance between the School of Government and the School of Business...