Word: regular
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...confusion was an invitation for price gouging. The National Iranian Oil Co. (NIOC) demanded $50 per bbl. for some oil it put on the spot market and threatened that if its regular customers did not pay the price, NIOC would refuse to renew its supply contracts when they expire in December. Exxon, Shell and British Petroleum got telex notification from NIOC that their anticipated deliveries for the last three months of 1979 were being cut by approximately 5%. NIOC blamed "operational difficulties," but many oilmen suspected that the missing petroleum would soon enough turn up for sale on the spot...
...Chairman Lee lacocca had some good news for his 16 fellow Chrysler directors. Before they gathered for their regular monthly meeting, he had received a call from Treasury Secretary G. William Miller, who told him that the suffering No. 3 automaker was going to get the Government aid that it had been seeking since August. Nor would the assistance be chintzy. The Carter Administration had decided to back a federal loan guarantee of $1.5 billion, which was twice what Miller had indicated he would support only last September and a full $500 million more than the company had asked...
Frustrated, the Crimson continued to press and finally, with less than five minutes left in regular play, halfback Sara Fischer emerged triumphantly from a melee in front of the net to put Harvard in front...
...arch problem which made even walking difficult forced her to begin regular visits to a local chiropractor last spring. Forman admits to skepticism at first but now credits the doctor with her recent comeback...
...addition to her blistering performances in Massachusetts high school meets. Forman made regular appearances on the tough indoor circuit as early as 1975, but points out that she took her lumps before burning up the competition. "I remember my first big indoor meet at Madison Square Garden," Forman said, "I guess they could tell I was pretty green; someone gave me the elbow five seconds into the race...