Word: yet
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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Carter has denounced both OPEC and the oil companies repeatedly, writhing resentfully when accused on being the industry's man in D.C. Yet, he alone must bear responsibility for letting OPEC set the tune on oil prices, and for handing the oil companies hundreds of billions of dollars in excess profits...
November's price increases bear out his prediction. Global oil supplies are plentiful, yet prices continue to soar. The oil companies "are stockpiling oil as fast as it can be produced," reports the Wall Street Journal...
...been the target of so many attacks in recent years that the once highly secret agency is now more familiar to the general public than, say, the U.S. Department of Agriculture. Yet all the revelations by disgruntled former employees and leftist ideologues have not added up to a balanced appraisal of the agency. To a considerable extent, that task has been accomplished by Thomas Powers, a former U.P.I, reporter who won a Pulitzer Prize in 1971 for his coverage of the radical bomber Diana Oughton. With near clinical detachment, Powers has produced a remarkably realistic portrait of American intelligence beset...
...agency, Powers believes, was badly served, as was the central figure in his narrative, Richard Helms, who headed the CIA from 1966 to 1973. A consummate professional, Helms was the proverbial man in the middle. His job was to furnish the best possible intelligence, and yet he had to contend with intense political pressures from the White House and the Pentagon. It was a high-wire act from which every CIA director has sooner or later tumbled...
...star stirs up, of having some popular sympathy and prestige rub off as a result of a supporting star's popularity. In turn, the star, on top of perhaps serving personal philosophical interests, enjoys a chance to bask in the presence of power. That may seem little reward, yet it may be of considerable importance to a king-size theatrical...