Word: winter
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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Faced with the prospect of a winter with expensive heating oil in short supply, the Cambridge City Council last night approved a series of emergency measures designed to stave off the cold for the city's poor...
...retired people in Hartford, Carter cracked, "As much as I admire you as retired persons, I must admit that I am not yet tempted to join your ranks any time soon." Then he assured the audience that there would be sufficient heating oil on hand for the winter, an issue of special concern for New Englanders, and announced the creation of an office in Boston to coordinate the handling of emergency fuel oil shortages, should any arise. He also said that he had asked the nation's largest oil companies to freeze the price of home heating fuel...
...production by 1 million bbl. a day in .early October, from current levels of 9.5 million bbl. a day. If that happens, the dice-rolling on the peace process could become very frantic indeed, and Strauss's optimism could freeze over with the first blasts of winter...
...racquetwomen had a good season last winter despite several setbacks. Top-ranked Sarah Mlezcko, one of Harvard's finest athletes, decided to take a rest from competitive sports. And later in the campaign, tragedy struck when freshman star Cynthia Stanton died in a plane crash...
Texaco previously announced it intends to freeze heating oil prices this winter, and received the praise of President Carter as a standard for the industry...