Word: vetters
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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When the glut is gone, OPEC will be a formidable force again. Predicts Dallas Energy Consultant Ed Vetter: "Once the OPEC countries got us backed into a corner, they could raise their price with impunity and we would have no way to respond." A recent report by the National Petroleum Council, an industry group that advises the Department of Energy, asserts that by 1990 OPEC will be producing at 80% of its capacity, as compared with 66% today. Historically, whenever OPEC has reached the 80% threshold, it has succeeded in imposing -- and sustaining -- oil-price hikes. The report estimates that...
...admire the Sparts for what they are doing. It's important to make the point now while people are being paralyzed by the propaganda Reagan is putting out," said Ralph G. Vetter 8' refering to the rumored MiGs aboard Nicaragua-bound Soviet freighters...
Seconds after takeoff on his first try with a hang glider, a sudden gust of wind caused Craig Vetter to crash. He spent two months in a wheelchair, learning to hate what many disabled persons call the "chrome-plated torture rack." Now, one year later, Industrial Designer Vetter, 39, has put his own well-engineered, light, agile and elegant wheelchair design on the market. As yet custom made, Vetter's chair also comes in a sports model for wheelchair tennis, basketball or marathons...
...Vetter has given the wheelchair a contemporary look, Thomas E. Stephenson, 49, has revolutionized it. He has designed a chair that runs on belts like a tank, rather than the usual bicycle wheels. In contrast to wheels, which can be stopped by an obstruction like a garden hose, Stephenson's traction belts can negotiate a step, a curb or a grade. The design is still on the drawing boards...
...Vetter was allegedly loitering in the Quincy game room and witnesses allegedly saw him take a jacket from the building. Police apprehended Vetter outside, and the owner of the jacket identified...