Word: marketable
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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...
Even if the plan is accepted by all the parties involved, the ultimate survival of Chrysler will depend on selling the slow-moving K-cars in a recession-battered market. Without an upturn in car sales, no special deal will be able to keep the nation's 17th largest out of bankruptcy court...
...title formula is for a synthetic fuel invented by Nazi scientists. The conceit is that it has been kept off the market since World War II by the oil interests in order to keep up the price of crude. A sometime Los Angeles cop and his wife are killed when it looks as if they are about to go public with the secret. The search for their killers-and the precious equations they were killed for-leads Detective George C. Scott to Germany and Switzerland and to involvement not only with remnants of the Third Reich but with modern terrorists...
Like so many movies and books that try to graft topical subject matter onto the obsessive mass-market interest in the Nazi past. The Formula requires too much exposition. By the time all the improbable explanations for its linkages between a fast-receding past and today's headlines have been laid out, all the false trails explored, the action lies buried under a pile of verbiage. It used to be that detective stories were lean and laconic. The attempt to give them spurious importance by having them address what are thought to be big subjects is ruining them. They...
Terrence Daniels, president of Western Publishing, is equally bullish: "Every year our Little Golden Books sell 35 million in the domestic market and about 10 million abroad in 90 different countries. This is a growth business...