Word: upsetting
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...already suffering increasing economic upset from energy inflation, and now the malaise will worsen. According to Administration calculations, the cost of crude oil imported into the U.S., which last month averaged $25 per bbl., will rise to from $28 to $30. Several of the nation's most important OPEC suppliers, including Nigeria and Libya, are also among those that lifted their prices the most...
...three criminal contempt citations indicate, Farmer pulls no punches in the courtroom. Once, while defending a black charged with killing a white police chief, Farmer's effort to have an impartial judge preside over the trial led to the disqualification of five judges. The prosecuting attorney was so upset that he burned one of his law books. "I don't have a judge," he exclaimed. "I figure if I don't have a judge, I don't need a law book!" Despite Farmer's efforts, his client wound up on death...
...confidence upset brings down Clark's Tory government...
...vote on division" at 9:50 p.m., the packed public gallery in Canada's House of Commons stirred with excitement. The balloting took only eleven minutes. When it was over, the Progressive Conservative government of Prime Minister Joe Clark, just 6½ months in office, had been stunningly upset. By a vote of 139 to 133, the Tories went down to defeat on a no-confidence motion supported by the combined opposition of Pierre Elliott Trudeau's Liberals (114 seats) and the New Democratic Party of Ed Broadbent (27 seats). When the shouting from the triumphant opposition benches...
...ministers of the world's least beloved cartel jet into Caracas next week for their final sock-it-to-'em meeting of the decade, there will be some important and worrisome differences from past gatherings. OPEC will be fixing prices against a backdrop of almost unprecedented global upset brought on in large part by its own actions. More than that, in its headlong rush for profits, the 13-nation cartel has been rapidly losing even the appearance of self-control over pricing and production...