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...endlessly multiplying petrodollars? Almost from the moment that oil prices first began shooting up six years ago, bankers, businessmen and government officials have been asking themselves that question. Now, with petroleum prices once again rising steeply, the issue is cropping up anew; and this time the implications are scarier than ever...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Business: World Bankers Juggle the Huge Oil Debts | 3/3/1980 | See Source »

...Missouri state legislature in 1972: "I used to feel guilty when Harry went into the jungle, and I was a cook and chauffeur for the kids. I felt he was doing everything, and I was doing nothing. Now I'm finding that the jungle is not any harder or scarier than being home...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: WOMEN OF THE YEAR: Great Changes, New Chances, Tough Choices | 1/5/1976 | See Source »

...Western technology. U.S. and European investment has built an auto-assembly works, an aluminum plant and a petrochemical complex. Though two-thirds of the country's 30 million people still live in villages, Teheran, the capital, has become a bustling city of 3,000,000, with traffic even scarier than Tokyo...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: The World: Iran: The Show of Shows | 10/25/1971 | See Source »

...there are two possibilities: Either one, the President didn't understand when he went into Cambodia that he was invading another country; or two, he did understand. We just don't know which one is scarier. And he seems to have done this without consultation with the Secretary of Defense or the Secretary of State, or with leaders of the Senate and House. We are deeply worried about the scale of the operation, as compared with the process of decision...

Author: By Mike Kinsley, | Title: 'I think we have a very unhappy colleague-on-leave tonight.' | 5/19/1970 | See Source »

...horrendous ham classic. Sobbing, she crawls to the top of the steps, sees something, freezes like a psychotic spaniel, then goes howling down backward and sideways, all matted curls, eyeballs and quivering flesh. By the time she rumbles to a stop, audiences may justly wonder which apparition is scarier-Bette at the bottom or that Thing up top with the muddy feet...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Cinema: Dragon Ladies | 3/19/1965 | See Source »

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