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...grand ballroom as delegates from the 13-member Organization of Petroleum Exporting Countries deliberated behind closed doors. For the second time in the past five weeks, OPEC's contentious band of oil ministers were debating what to do about a continuing worldwide petroleum glut that has put intense downward pressure on prices. Their main goal: to reach agreement on production quotas that would keep the cost of crude at $34 per bbl., the "official" level for the past 16 months. Suddenly, the ballroom door burst open and out strode the dapper, but obviously weary Saudi Oil Minister, Sheik Ahmed...
Things ended fast. At 7 a.m., doors seemed to open everywhere, and at least 30 janitors swooped in upstairs and started turning on lights, moving downward. "We're going to get squeezed out," Jill told Jack. "We'd better get down to D and delay it as long as possible...
Fletcher, professor of Chinese and Central Asian History, walked slowly, steadily into William James Hall yesterday, his head and right shoulder tilted slightly downward...
Having learned from bitter experience what can happen to their investments in a recovering economy, bondholders in recent weeks have grown wary and started cashing in on their spectacular 1982 profits while the economy is still weak. The selling has put further downward pressure on prices, which have slipped by an average of about 5% from their rally peaks. That in turn has helped hold interest high, and made businessmen and investors start to wonder if the cost of money will fall much farther under even the most favorable circumstances...
...nations and many others are in a financial bind partly because they are dependent on exports to the U.S. and those shipments have been slowed by the American recession. In turn, sluggish growth overseas has hurt American export industries. Two-way trade troubles have thus created a self-sustaining downward spiral that is difficult to stop...