Word: actionable
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...President's program makes progress, but more action may be needed...
...come some welcome tidings to mix with all the bad reports out of Iran and the other oil-producing countries. The key energy recommendations made after the President's eleven-day retreat at Camp David last July should be signed into law within a few weeks. While this action will not forestall another price increase when OPEC meets next month in Caracas, it represents the most serious step taken to deal with the nation's energy woes since the oil crisis exploded...
...debating a bill passed by its Finance Committee that would levy "only" $138 billion in new taxes. Administration lobbyists are now trying to increase the bite on energy companies to $242 billion. A new report from the Congressional Budget Office, headed by Democratic Economist Alice Rivhn, concluded that such action would enrich the Treasury but result in less oil for the country. The study showed that domestic oil production in 1990 under the tough House tax would be 7.1 million bbl. per day, while it would be 7.6 million with the lighter Senate bill and 7.9 million with...
...Iranian oil cutoff and ever higher OPEC prices have raised the possibility of still further energy action. "It is clear that we must embark on new initiatives in all sectors and rethink what is possible," says Deputy Energy Secretary John Sawhill. He adds that the Administration is considering ways to boost gasohol production, force utilities to use more coal and other oil conservation measures. Such proposals would save as much as 600,000 bbl. of oil per day; up to now, the U.S. has been importing some 700.000 bbl. daily from Iran...
...settings are truly lovely-symmetrical Palladian porticoes, marbled rooms with glowing frescoes and statuary, formal gardens opening on cypress-dotted vistas. Losey scatters the action of the opera over every photogenic square foot of them. Characters grope endlessly down pillared corridors, wander around outdoors and are unaccountably set afloat on gondolas. Consecutive scenes shift disconcertingly from nighttime to broad daylight and back again. Most of the music is lip-synched to a prerecorded track; inside or out, wind or rain, we hear the souped-up ambience of the recording studio. The result is that characters who ought to be interacting...