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Word: winterful (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1970-1979
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Massport official Richard Baldwin blamed an increase in planes over Cambridge during this winter's cold snap to prevailing northwest winds. "This summer shouldn't be as bad as that period," Baldwin added...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Airplane Noise Will Increase In Cambridge This Summer | 5/8/1979 | See Source »

...companies hoarding gasoline to raise the price? No. They are rebuilding their inventories, which they had to draw down sharply in recent months in order to supply customers. Companies are also shifting production from gasoline to heating oil so as to build up stocks for next winter. Even Carter last week admitted that this is necessary, and he warned that the U.S. faces gasoline shortages this summer and fall and a worse pinch next year...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Inside the Big Oil Game | 5/7/1979 | See Source »

Though the Seven Sisters dominate the industry, their influence and power are actually being cut down by the energy upheavals of the 1970s. This winter the worldwide shortage of crude has encouraged one nation after another, and numerous independent oil firms, to deal directly with OPEC, in effect short-circuiting the big multinationals. Says Thornton Bradshaw...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Inside the Big Oil Game | 5/7/1979 | See Source »

When the patience of many workers, dismayed at having traded three years of wage restraint for the sterility of the Callaghan program, erupted into the disastrous strikes this past winter, the one fig-leaf covering the Labour government--their claim to be able to 'manage' the unions--had disappeared. There was little left to fight for, and long before election day, the Labour faithful were demoralized by the party's failure to present a radical alternative to the Tory challenge...

Author: By Gordon Marsden, | Title: Britain Under the 'Iron Lady' | 5/7/1979 | See Source »

...called leftist shop stewards that the Tory press loves to attack. If the Tories go for the easy option of making the unions scapegoats, they risk a confrontation besides which the miners' strike of 1974 (which brought down the Health government) and the disruptions of last winter will seem like tea-parties...

Author: By Gordon Marsden, | Title: Britain Under the 'Iron Lady' | 5/7/1979 | See Source »

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