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Word: barreling (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1970-1979
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After two days of stormy meetings, the OPEC ministers agreed to raise their prices for the second time in a little more than three months-on this occasion by 9%, bringing the cost of a barrel of the marker crude, Saudi Arabian light oil, to $14.55 per bbl. Though that alone would fatten OPEC'S already bulging bank accounts with an additional $20 billion annually from the U.S., Western Europe and Japan, as well as more foreign exchange from the have-not nations of the Third World, the cartel also moved to allow individual members to stick on whatever...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Business: OPEC's Dangerous Game | 4/9/1979 | See Source »

...main force behind this whisky rebellion is Keizo Saji, 59, the professorial chairman of Suntory Ltd. He and his family own Suntory still, pot and barrel. Last year the company's after-tax profits are estimated to have reached $57 million on sales of $2.8 billion. With volume last year of 26 million cases of Scotch-type whisky, Suntory not only commands 64% of Japan's whisky market but also claims to be the world's leading private distiller...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Business: The Saga off Rising Suntory | 4/2/1979 | See Source »

...national disgrace. In order to get our daily "fix" we are willing to coddle tyrants, insult friends and grovel before reactionary regimes. Once it was feared that mankind would be "crucified upon a cross of gold"; now it appears that it will be crushed by a barrel...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Letters, Mar. 19, 1979 | 3/19/1979 | See Source »

...dollar has made oil relatively cheaper in yen or marks than it was only a few years ago. If other OPEC countries now decide to follow Iran's lead, even going so far as to break existing contracts with oil companies, the dollar price of a barrel of crude could surge to unimagined heights...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Energy: The Oil Squeeze of '79 | 3/12/1979 | See Source »

...remains high, the spot premium will simply be imposed on the higher posted cartel price. That would mean we will have, sooner or later, another OPEC increase following the first increase. And the higher OPEC price will not increase the supply of oil in world markets by one single barrel...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Energy: Unity Against a Rat Race | 3/12/1979 | See Source »

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