Word: 1980s
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Flanked by his photogenic family as he made his announcement at Washington's National Press Club, Bush took a poke at President Carter: "We have learned that good intentions are not enough in a President. To be effective, leadership in the 1980s must be based on a politics of substance, not symbols; of reason, not bombast; of frankness, not false promise." He called for the usual Republican objectives: reduced federal spending, a balanced budget, increased military strength, a tougher foreign policy...
...Magazine Industry of the 1980s--M.J. (chip) Block, Jr., president, Redwood Communications, Rm 24, Alken Computation...
What is needed, of course, is an energy policy to lead the U.S. from its dependence on petroleum, especially imports. Energy Secretary James Schlesinger is probably too pessimistic when he warns that a severe global supply squeeze could come as early as the mid-1980s, but the nation will be in increasing jeopardy anyway. The threat is not that some day soon there will be much too little oil, but that consumers will have to pay ever more extortionate prices to get it. Says Guido Brunner, the Common Market's energy commissioner: "We have to realize that...
Only two years ago, oilmen were confident that the Saudis would steadily boost production, to as much as 20 million bbl. a day by the early 1980s. A Senate report three weeks ago concluded that the West will be lucky if the Saudis achieve much more than half that level over the next eight years. They have been shaken by the experience of Iran, where the social strains of rapid industrial development brought on revolution. The royal family is split between moderates eager to expand
...problem would clear up by 1992 because of the higher payroli taxes taking effect automatically through the 1980s, they said. The system, however, cannot afford a cut in those tax increases, enacted by Congress in 1977 to keep the system solvent...