Word: reckoning
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...hope that this would encourage investment in Egypt by Jewish-American businessmen. Oil-exploration deals have been signed with a number of Western firms, and hopes are high that new strikes may be made in the Sinai, the Gulf of Suez and the Western Desert. Oilmen reckon that by 1982 Egypt may nearly double its production to 1 million bbl. a day, which would put the country almost in a class with Algeria...
...Kennedy has carried the debate over the power of the oil companies beyond economic consideration to reckon with the threat that their vast economic power poses to a fair distribution of political power. He has long favored public funding of Congressional elections. (In 1978, oil industry PACs, oil company directors, executives and lawyers contributed $1.3 million to 34 senators, more than $40,000 for each one. And the U.S. News and World Report estimates that the oil lobby spends up to $75 million a year in Washington...
...chief of the discredited but still powerful Korean Central Intelligence Agency. Chung immediately ordered a purge of the agency's upper echelons. Most observers concluded that he had already emerged as the dominant figure of the interim regime. Also, few doubted that he would be a power to reckon with in the succession struggle...
...GIVE THEM. For even those actors who never sinned on the stage before don't stand a chance with this cardboard American morality play, Dark of the Moon. Not a chance, "I reckon" (to quote the pet phrase of the playwrights) with all the "fers, plumbs and cottonwood-blooming times" and a script that should burn in the fires of hell. And while they wallow in this sty of Appalachia, adultery and brimstone (and anything else moral that you happen to think of), do not spurn them for their transgressions, for the performance was near as good what mortals might...
FEAR NOT, actors, for where there are no characters to speak of, you have done your damndest...I reckon. Marc T. Johnson, although he struggles through the opening, improves in the course of the evening. If Johnson has made too much of a two-dimensional character (why are you in love with Barbara Allen?), it is not his fault. Kate Silverman as Barbara Allen does yeoman's service to an unimaginative role. If the scene in the bedroom after she has given birth to a witch is overdone, she's not to blame...