Word: accessibility
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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Data Resources maintains a complex, computerized model of the American economy. Major corporations pay an average of $51,000 yearly to gain access to DRI's computer and its economic data...
...rally, thousands of demonstrators trekked down an access road lined with hawkers trying to sell "No Nuke" t-shirts, and pamphleteers who would attempt to convince you that nuclear power was not only dangerous, it was racist, sexist, militaristic, anti-gay and a tool of imperialist capitalistic corporate exploitation as well. Then past tables filled with anti-nuke and alternative energy literature and finally down a dirt path to the beach, were old reliables like Dave Dellinger, former anti-war activist, and George Wald, Emeritus Professor of Biology, would speak and Pete Seeger and others entertain. Just before noon...
...while it is easy enough to blame the Government, the public's "me first" spirit is fouling up matters too. Truckers are now demanding unrestricted access to diesel fuel, while farmers get all they want. Simultaneously, other consumers clamor for exemptions for any gas-rationing system or demand that heating-oil stocks be built up to guard against a cold winter. There is no way that refineries can give farmers and truckers unlimited supplies, turn out maximum supplies of gasoline and build heating-oil inventories?and the Government has failed to set clear priorities...
...sometimes hitting human flesh. Most of the nation's 100,000 independent, long-haul truckers were striking in protest against the rising cost (up 35% since the beginning of the year) and increasing scarcity of diesel fuel. Some merely stopped working. Others used their trucks to block access to refineries and fuel terminals, trying to disrupt the nation's commerce as much as possible. Warned Oscar Williams, an official of the Independent Truckers Association (30,000 members): "I can predict that when housewives in the major cities go to market and cannot find peaches, cherries or fresh meat...
...French government is especially embarrassed by reports of the killings: aid from Paris, offered in return for military facilities and access to uranium deposits, keeps Bokassa in power. Moreover, Giscard sometimes goes on hunting trips to the Empire, where his family owns a hotel and a hunting lodge. Nonetheless, Paris announced that it was suspending military assistance to the Empire pending a complete investigation by five African states of the massacre charges...