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...amount of bombast could hide the concerned mood of the meeting. The recession in the industrialized world, caused in part by towering oil prices, has sharply reduced demand for OPEC crude. This has lowered revenues for oil producers, who have had to cut production. OPEC output, which averaged 33 million bbl. a day in 1974, is now down to an average rate of 27 million bbl. Cartel officials note that even with shrinking demand, oil producers are taking in more money now than they were a few years ago. Yet the more production falls, the closer OPEC comes...
...disguise the real anguish of their joblessness from friends and their own children. Birdie Gaston, 62, who lives in Harlem, was laid off as a packager for Alfred Dunhill, Inc. a week before Christmas. "I brood a lot, and I hurt inside," she says, but she has attempted to hide those feelings from her relatives. She feels "ashamed" that she has to collect unemployment compensation ($63 a week). Most of all, she misses the job. "When I am working, I feel 24 years old. When I am not working, I feel...
Golf is as if were all bones, an instant chastener and teacher: lessons show through, shapely as the graphs of binomial equations, that would hide forever amid the muffling muscle of lived life's muddle...
...Douglas, could let the IRS go off on "shot-in-the-dark" hunting expeditions. Speaking for the majority, Chief Justice Warren Burger conceded the problem but insisted that courts could deal with it by keeping careful limits on the IRS power. After all. Burger added, many taxpayers innocently "hide large amounts of currency in odd places out of a fear of banks"-a fear that last week's decision will not diminish...
...plot which is meant to be too involved for me to be able to summarize it. But this isn't the kind of force in which the structure of the plot itself is the entertainment--doors constantly opening and closing: first one then two characters forced to hide in the closet. Here the plot is about as lissome as a set of steel girders on which to hang puns, blowing like so many colored handkerchiefs with the command "laugh" emblazoned on there...