Word: 1990s
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...report to the Senate when it reconvenes after Labor Day. He said with relief: "A lot of steam has come out of the effort, allowing the fever to cool off and calm to reassert itself. It's too much, too soon. It is a good program for the 1990s, not something you have to pass in the summer of 1979. We might create a monster we can't get rid of." Agreed Abe Ribicoff: "We have the responsibility not to rush to judgment...
...European and Third World lines are growing fast, and they seem more inclined to fly non-American jets than U.S. carriers do. The Airbus consortium aims to sell at least 25% of the 3,000 or so short-and medium-haul jets that will be needed by the early 1990s...
...Mexican finds are significant but hardly a complete solution to future energy shortages. At best, oil from Mexico would put off the projected fuel crunch from the late 1980s to the early 1990s. But together with other potential big fields?in China, Iraq, Canada, South America, Alaska and elsewhere?the new bonanza in Mexico could enable the world to scrape by into the 21st century, by which time energy from alternative sources may be widely available...
...ever. Rising output from Alaska, the North Sea and the Gulf of Mexico, where they dominate drilling, might even increase their future share. The new production, combined with a slowdown in consumption, has put off the day when the world will start running out of oil to the 1990s, or the early 21st century. Far from being menaced by scarcity, the companies just now must cope with a global glut...
...French Concorde, of which ten are now flying, is such a fuel-gulping money loser that no more are on order and five have been left unsold. NASA and U.S. planemakers are still conducting supersonic research on a modest scale, but an American SST is not expected before the 1990s, and then only if the world economy is buoyant...