Word: wayes
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...Kampala, while the other half was stalled on a road about 40 miles west of the Ugandan capital. The two-pronged attack apparently had been stopped by Tanzanian President Julius Nyerere. During the course of the five-month war, Nyerere had been reluctant to send his troops all the way to Kampala. He had hoped that the invasion would lead to a spontaneous uprising of disaffected Ugandans, both military and civilian, that would then become a war of national liberation. But the uprising never came. As a result, the invasion followed a stop-go pattern...
...members to stick on whatever price-gouging surcharges and premiums they think they can get away with. That made official policy a tactic that many producing countries have been following all winter anyway. Finally, as if to add insult to financial injury, the OPEC representatives went out of their way to try to put the blame for the increase on the industrial countries, which they chide for not curbing both energy consumption and the inflation that is eroding the value of their petrodollars...
...more energy to grow and harvest the grain and distill the alcohol from it than the alcohol produces when burned. For every 4 B.T.U.s of energy that are used to make alcohol, only 2.5 B.T.U.s are generated. Advocates argue that is not the point. Alcohol, they say, offers a way to boost stockpiles of liquid fuels, which are all that can be used in autos and which are in shortest supply...
...little-known firm bribed its way to big-time problems...
...mistake in ruling against the Progressive will seriously infringe cherished First Amendment rights. A mistake in ruling against the United States could pave the way for thermonuclear annihilation...