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...Wrung Out. The Shah's current five-year plan calls for $10.8 billion in development spending. Oil, which is the economy's basic fuel, must pay much of the bill. Last year the Shah demanded slightly more than $1 billion in revenues. To meet that goal, the European-American consortium that brings out more than 90% of the nation's oil increased production by 14.8% to well over 1 billion bbl. a year. But with the glut in world markets, the consortium could sell only enough to raise $930 million and had to make up the difference...
...that, through being skipped, through never having had a generational voice, was forced into the broadest possible America," she writes. "In a way, in culture and in politics, we are the last custodians of language-because of the books we read and because history, in our time, has wrung so many changes on the meaning of terms and we, having never generationally perpetrated anything, have no commitment to any distortion of them...
...mirrors investors' expectations of the performance of U.S. business, it is a valuable (but sometimes flawed) barometer of the economic future. A stock-market decline is perhaps the strongest signal yet that the Government is finally beginning to bring the overexuberant U.S. economy under control. "Inflation is being wrung out of the stock market," says Walter E. Hoadley, executive vice president of California's Bank of America. "The correction is a prerequisite to a resumption of healthy growth...
...wall still snake across the neck of Britain. For generations, antiquaries have poked at it and puzzled over it as antiquaries will, especially if they are British. The latest is David Divine, a military correspondent for the London Sunday Times, who prefers strategy to stones. He has wrung from the grassy ruins evidence to show how Domitian's mistake, and the very existence of the wall, prefigured the eventual doom of Roman Britain...
...group of analysts is convinced that the Communists, bloodied by 180,000 battlefield deaths so far this year, have battered themselves to the brink of impotence. If this reading is accurate, concessions can be wrung from Communist negotiators in Paris through astute haggling, reinforced by military muscle against a weakened Viet Cong...