Word: almosts
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This lack of understanding can be seen in the decision to pump billions of dollars into the development of synthetic fuels. As Colorado's Democratic Governor Dick Lamm put it: "For us in the West the implications are almost unfathomable. Colorado has 80% of the nation's developable shale, vast amounts of coal and a great deal of uranium. Now we are being subjected to a crash program...
...between him and the President. "The chemistry is really good between them," says a senior presidential aide. "Jimmy wanted someone who could give him honest, solid judgments in the whole decision-making process." Donovan's somewhat wry view: "The President wants to be able to talk about almost anything freely with somebody who has some gray hair...
...task of the nation's leaders in the '80s will be to rediscover new themes of purpose in American life. History, of course, may help by assailing the serene with some of its blunt instruments. As U.A.W. President Doug Eraser says, "It is almost impossible to get movement in our society unless there is absolute crisis ? it is a crisis leadership and a crisis government...
Sophisticated lobbying has collaborated with an exquisitely subdivided system to subvert larger goals. "Congress is fragmented into 300 committees and subcommittees now," complains Joseph Califano, the just purged HEW Secretary. The committees almost inevitably grow into guardians of their specialties. Huge staffs, not the elected Congressmen, preside over the drafting of bills, establishing directions and priorities that should be set by leaders, not bureaucrats and clerks...
...third branch of Government, Warren Burger's Supreme Court has avoided the hobgoblin of little minds. It has developed an almost elegant lack of judicial philosophy. This year's graven edict of the majority may turn up next year as a dissent. Observes Georgetown Law Center Professor Dennis Hutchinson: "The bar and the public are left without the ability to predict what the court will do even in similar circumstances. You don't know where you stand with this court...