Word: retorted
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...well during the Second World War...it served again in the Korean War and for Richard Nixon...Each time, inflation resumed when the controls were lifted, but it is surely not an argument against a policy that it does not work when you do not have it. "The obvious retort is that prices are to some extent reflections of demand and the fact that they skyrocketed after the controls were lifted indicated drastic distortions when the limits were in place...
...geologists call marl, which is commonly known as shale. Colony's 8,800 acres alone are estimated to contain at least 500 million bbl. of oil, a month-long supply for the entire U.S. at the current levels of consumption. The project's facilities include a huge retort for cooking a compound called kerogen, contained in shale, and extracting oil from it. Authorities projected that by the late 1980s, Colony could be producing about 45,000 bbl. of oil from shale daily...
Exxon's departure left Union Oil with the largest stake in shale oil in the U.S. That company has a project not far from Colony's retort, where 1,700 workers are now employed. Union President Fred Hartley vowed to press ahead, calling Exxon's decision "irrelevant" to Union's plans. Says he: "We've always felt ours was the only project really going on. The others were simply going through the motions." The company plans to have up to 700 more workers at the shale works by June. In 15 months, its plant should...
...example, should be renamed the Child of God. This may sound like faddism, but reformers insist that the wide spread use of terms like policeman and chairman helps decide who gets the jobs (and the power), that what people call things sometimes governs what they think about them. Traditionalists retort that language cannot and should not be subjected to such moral judgments...
...Critics retort that this script is, in the words of Paul Warnke, a leading U.S. negotiator for the unratified SALT II treaty, "inherently implausible." Kremlin leaders, they insist, would not launch the first strike, because they could never be sure that they really would destroy most of the land-based American missiles. Even if they did, they dare not run the risk that the U.S. would hit back with a catastrophic strike on Soviet cities in return. Reaganites reply that worry about the Soviets' capacity for nuclear blackmail is in itself a force in world politics, frightening both...