Word: 1980s
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...near-term future looks even more yeasty. The number of people in the prime beer-drinking age (21 to 35) will keep increasing into the 1980s. More women are drinking beer, a trend brewers are encouraging by bringing out low-calorie beers and 7-oz. bottles. Beer consumption is rising in the South, traditionally the land of bourbon and Dr Pepper. Even some competitors seem to be unwittingly helping the brewers: soft-drink makers have posted such huge price increases that in California and some other areas, it now costs little more to pick up a six-pack...
...sometimes skeptical world that perhaps there is a real chance for world unity." That theme is sure to be heard repeatedly later in August when the two Soyuz cosmonauts arrive in the U.S. for a tour. But no reruns of the Apollo-Soyuz space spectacular are possible until the 1980s, when American astronauts again take to orbit aboard the space shuttle, a new generation of reusable craft that launch from a pad and land on a runway...
Jugular Vein. Other experts, among them Citibank Economist Leif Olsen, doubt that the shortfall will be that severe. Yet the price of avoiding crisis, the optimists agree, will be a sharp scaling down of the nation's investment goals through the mid-1980s. In a recent study sponsored by Washington's Brookings Institution, Harvard's James Duesenberry and two other economists derided "Cassandras" who are forecasting a shortage and concluded that "we can afford the future, but just barely." The Duesenberry study contends that Government can be counted upon to come to the rescue: by running...
...hope is that higher prices for new gas would trigger enough new drilling to arrest the decline in proven reserves by the 1980s, when other forms of gas, notably illogically named synthetic natural gas (which is manufactured from coal) and imported liquefied natural gas could supplement the real stuff, though at a very high cost. For the U.S., the cold reality is that the era of plentiful low-cost natural gas is ending quite as painfully as did the bygone age of cheap, abundant...
...energy dilemma. Concedes ERDA Deputy Administrator Robert Fri: "One message of the plan is that we're sorry, but there is no simple answer." The agency calls for stepped-up development of a wide range of new and existing energy technologies and resources. But up through the mid-1980s, the country must try to keep pace with expanding power needs principally by squeezing more out of present sources, chiefly domestic oil and natural gas, as well as coal, which now supplies about 20% of U.S. energy consumption...