Word: amercan
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...years ago, America should have gotten the message. Perhaps the idea of bernoose-clad desert dwellers putting a hitch in the Amercan Way of Life was too much for people to absorb. Maybe they believed that the energy crisis was a fiction, created by the greedy oil companies. Whatever people thought then, the country now finds itself stuck with the reality of soaring energy costs, dwindling fossil fuel supplies and no coherent approach to bailing the situation...
...intensifying. White House mail was running 2 to 1 against Lance. Various bankers challenged his claim that some $450,000 in overdrafts amassed by him and his relatives from Calhoun First National Bank, of which he was president, was "typical of Southern banking practices." Said a spokesman for the Amercan Bankers Association: "We don't see that as normal or typical, whether it's Southern or Northern or whatever." The President of a Midwestern bank put it more bluntly: "Bert Lance has given the ranking business a black...