Word: winter
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...year--a new first baseman. Though George Scott recalls memories of golden gloves and home-run rallies, it was apparent last March that Scott's best years had come and gone. He came to spring training in 1978 grossly overweight, and though he lost some pounds this winter, he never got his needle back on true north...
Harvard administrators yesterday said the University's energy costs will soar in the near future, but they cautiously predicted there will be enough heating oil available to cover the needs for the up-coming winter...
Anticipating the prospect of dollar-a-gallon home heating oil this winter, the Cambridge City Council last week assigned two city workers to prepare a plan for keeping Cantabrigians warm...
...violence and threats of worse to come. Although the Department of Energy had contributed to the gas shortage by urging oil companies to build up their depleted stocks of heating fuel, it was disclosed last week that home fuel prices will be a paralyzing 80¢ per gal. by next winter (up almost 50% from last winter) and there will be shortages...
...first" spirit is fouling up matters too. Truckers are now demanding unrestricted access to diesel fuel, while farmers get all they want. Simultaneously, other consumers clamor for exemptions for any gas-rationing system or demand that heating-oil stocks be built up to guard against a cold winter. There is no way that refineries can give farmers and truckers unlimited supplies, turn out maximum supplies of gasoline and build heating-oil inventories?and the Government has failed to set clear priorities...