Word: blacking
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Dates: during 1980-1980
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Such objections, however, are not likely to have any real impact on OPEC decisions. Much more important is the state of world petroleum markets, which are currently afloat in oil. Worldwide demand for the black gold was off by about 2 million bbl. a day in 1980. Some production has resumed in Iran and Iraq, and the Saudis are continuing to pump about 2 million bbl. a day extra to make up for the shortfall caused by the Iranian revolution and by the destruction resulting from the Persian Gulf war. This has permitted oil companies and major petroleum-importing countries...
...clues to their whereabouts. Sometimes dressed as telephone repairmen, they would pick locks or buy keys from landlords and, once inside, photograph diaries, letters and other documents. The burglaries would be cleared in advance with Miller, who got approval from Felt. Though Squad 47 conducted at least 20 such "black-bag jobs," the sleuthing did not turn up any Weather Underground people, although some have voluntarily surfaced in the past months...
DIED. Elston Howard, 51, versatile slugger who was one of the pioneering blacks in baseball's major leagues; of cardiac arrest; in New York City. In 1955, eight years after Jackie Robinson breached the game's color barrier by joining the Brooklyn Dodgers, Howard became the first black to play with the New York Yankees. After 13 seasons with the Yanks and one with the Boston Red Sox, he returned to Yankee Stadium as the American League's first black coach...
...goateed "colonel" who founded the Kentucky Fried Chicken fast-food chain, which now has 6,000 outlets in 48 countries; of pneumonia; in Louisville. Sanders ran a popular restaurant in rural Corbin, Ky., for 27 years before setting out in 1956 in his trademark white suits and black string ties to sell franchised eateries serving chicken parts laced with a secret blend of herbs and spices and pressure-cooked for 12 min. In 1964 he sold the business for $2 million to Nashville Businessmen Jack Massey and John Y. Brown Jr., now Kentucky's Democratic Governor; seven years later...
This is not to say that all is dragon-free in the world of children's literature. The fragmentation of the nuclear family, the new consciousness of black and women's history and of human rights in general have engendered a series of "problem books" that confuse as often as they enlighten. Lower reading scores have been reported in grade schools throughout the country. And although specialists regard children's literature as a rich and complex genre, its artists and writers are too frequently appraised by critics as a species of emotional retards...