Word: push
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...changed since 1945. What is needed now is intelligence and experience, not just a strong body. A 50-year-old woman can push a button or fix a computer as well as an 18-year-old boy, so let's apply the draft to all citizens under the age of 60 who are not veterans...
...thirst for petroleum. OPEC's economics experts told the ministers at the beginning of the meeting that world oil production is now about 1 million to 2 million bbl. per day greater than demand. The excess output is acting as a restraint on countries wishing to push the price of oil ever higher. Said Sheik Ahmed Zaki Yamani, the Saudi oil minister, after the meeting: "The agreement does not impose restrictions on others not to raise their prices. But I don't think they are going to raise prices because of the downward trend of the markets...
Nevertheless, last week's decision immediately set off some price shifts. While high-price countries like Libya and Algeria did not push theirs higher, Kuwait, Iraq, Qatar and Venezuela announced that they would begin demanding as much as $2 per bbl. more for oil on July 1. Those four countries have been recently charging a basic price of about $30 per bbl. for crude. Saudi Arabia refused to increase its rates for now, but Yamani hinted that he might raise them by $1 per bbl. to $4 per bbl. in order to unify OPEC prices. Some oil experts expect...
...lots of it. If they cannot produce enough energy to meet their own needs, they have two alternatives, neither of which bodes well for the rest of the world. They could use their gold reserves to compete with Western buyers on the already strained world oil market. This would push prices higher and cause incalculable economic turmoil. Or the Soviets could try to conquer Persian Gulf oilfields, which begin just across their southern border. Kremlin leaders flatly deny that they covet oil vital to the industrial West, but intelligence sources report that even Saudi Arabian leaders have held informal talks...
...black bridle on a white mare." Sherling has other works in preparation but, he says, finding space and support is becoming difficult. "It's as if the authorities had let a genie out of the bottle and don't know what to do about him now, push him back in or what...