Word: barreling
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...world recession seems to have largely lifted, and crude oil sales are rising as a result. Tanker charters have emerged from the doldrums, as top customers have scrambled to stock up on crude before the price rises again, often paying a 25? or 30? premium on each extra barrel...
Price Jump. Also, OPEC'S stated justification for a price boost is that it must maintain favorable "terms of trade" -that is, catch up with inflation in the industrial world, so that the selling price of a barrel of crude will buy as large a quantity of Western imports as it did in, say, early 1974. To oil consumers that argument seems extremely specious: the early 1974 terms of trade were achieved after a 400% jump in oil prices, and that leap caused no small part of the Western inflation that OPEC complains about. Even so, John Lichtblau director...
This amendment, which prohibits the possession of guns with a barrel length of less than sixteen inches, is specifically aimed at those people who like to run on football fields after the game has ended...
...proposed legislation would prohibit the possession, ownership, or sale of any weapon from which a shot or bullet can be discharged and which has a barrel length of less than sixteen inches...
...chapels are lovely. They were built in the Byzantine style, with barrel-vaulted naves and horseshoe-arched apses. Unencumbered by the structural requirements of free-standing buildings, the Cappadocian builders developed some unique architectural features, such as unusually broad naves, in their little churches. Some chapels also contain such non-Byzantine elements as conical roofs--typical of Armenian architecture--instead of the more conventional hemispheres...