Word: sell
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...crude to a record $18 per bbl., up fully 42% since the first of the year. That is the price that Saudi Arabia, Qatar and the United Arab Emirates will charge. The other ten OPEC members, which account for almost two-thirds of the cartel's exports, will sell at $20 per bbl. Reason: most are already charging an average of $17.50 per bbl. as a result of premiums and surcharges, and a rise of a mere 500 per bbl. hardly seemed worth the trouble...
...shortage of oil that seems irreversible. It is hard to believe that prices can be kept down." The former U.S. Ambassador to Saudi Arabia, James Akins, now a private oil-industry consultant, asserts, "The first time that any oil-importing nation offers a price above the ceilings OPEC will sell...
...states east of the Rockies on Sundays starting July 1. But most owners are reluctant to obey. After they have used up their gas allocation, they say, they see no need to stick around. Besides, if they stay open on weekends, they will be swamped with customers and quickly sell out their allocation, leaving none for regular customers during the week. More repair work also occurs on weekdays. Says Wayne Konitchek, a spokesman for Connecticut's gasoline dealers: "I wouldn't close on a Tuesday to open on a Sunday when I can't subsidize the opening...
Though GM Chairman Thomas A. Murphy maintains that the automakers will sell 11.5 million cars this year, other industry officials say they would not be surprised by sales of 10.5 million...
...rally, thousands of demonstrators trekked down an access road lined with hawkers trying to sell "No Nuke" t-shirts, and pamphleteers who would attempt to convince you that nuclear power was not only dangerous, it was racist, sexist, militaristic, anti-gay and a tool of imperialist capitalistic corporate exploitation as well. Then past tables filled with anti-nuke and alternative energy literature and finally down a dirt path to the beach, were old reliables like Dave Dellinger, former anti-war activist, and George Wald, Emeritus Professor of Biology, would speak and Pete Seeger and others entertain. Just before noon...