Word: startingly
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Dates: during 1980-1980
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Hatfield's determined drive to block draft registration had been doomed from the start. Although he was supported by an unusual mixture of conservatives and liberals from both parties, the Senate clearly was ready to approve the plan proposed by President Carter last January, just after Soviet troops invaded Afghanistan. The House had passed the necessary funding by a vote of 219 to 180. After two days of what turned out to be a six-day filibuster, Senate Majority Leader Robert Byrd called for a vote to invoke cloture, limiting further debate to 100 hours. Byrd was surprised that...
...OPEC ministers departed from last week's meeting, they left no doubt that they will start raising prices again just as soon as world petroleum demand permits. The group will meet in September and could then return to its old ways. Said Libyan Oil Minister Abdul Salam Zagaar: "The ceiling is going to be $37 until September, and then we will see what the market will...
...thus can the superpowers reverse the vicious cycle of retribution and recrimination that is driving them toward more and worse confrontations. The suspense 18 years ago was who would blink first. The challenge now is for the superpowers to find some way of blinking simultaneously so that they can start looking at where to go from here...
...number of electric cars could increase dramatically if Detroit's carmakers ever decide to start building them. Closest is General Motors, which has produced a prototype, the Electro Vette (a Chevette with lead-acid batteries). Last winter GM set up an electric car "project center," where it is working on an advanced zinc-nickel oxide battery with a range of 100 miles. GM EVs could be rolling off assembly lines as soon as the fall of 1983. Ford Motor Co. is working on a sodium-sulfur battery scheduled for lab tests...
Inventory-fueled recessions are essentially self-correcting because, once company stocks become manageable, firms start ordering again, and the economy picks up quickly. But a consumer-led recession lacks that built-in mechanism. Board members said that it could take a long time to get the American public spending again, without, of course, launching them on another inflationary shopping spree such as prevailed last winter...