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...with last month's Snepp decision, which backed the CIA's right to enforce its secrecy pledge on former agents, the new ruling is likely to help Government keep a tighter lid on its secrets...
Steel is at the crossroads. With relatively inexpensive imports keeping a lid on prices and a considerable portion of capital outlays diverted into nonproductive environmental controls, the industry cannot raise the money to build the efficient plants it must have to compete with foreign steel. Management, labor and the Government know it, and they are finally in agreement that steps must be taken now to harden and sharpen steel...
...newsstand, just south of the original, can be moved to facilitate construction on the concrete lid over the Red Line and the extension...
...kind of buyers' panic; governments and companies scrambled to purchase every drop available, to keep houses warm and the wheels of industry turning, and to build stockpiles to guard against the all-too-real prospect of another shut down in Iran or a supply disruption somewhere else. The lid came off prices with a bang. OPEC raised prices during 1979 by an average of 94.7%, to $25 a bbl.?vs. $12.84 a year ago and a mere $2 in 1970. Moreover, oil-exporting nations shifted a growing proportion of their output to the spot market, where oil not tied...
...crowd's enthusiasm and several very hot Seahawk hands--especially those of Jamie Cianphelio--put the game officially out of reach. Before the three-quarter mark, the score stood at 70-39, with the lid sealed on the Crimson's first road loss of the year...