Word: anyways
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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Occasional gasoline shortages this summer would merely foreshadow inevitable and worse dislocations next winter. Usually, the oil companies draw down their inventories steeply during the winter months anyway, then use the spring and summer to replenish their stocks. But U.S. inventories are already 10% below what they were this time last winter; they now stand at some 298 million bbl., or about a one-month supply. So if Iran's production is not resumed soon, says Energy Secretary James Schlesinger, "we would face much larger drawdowns next winter than we will have the resources to maintain...
...There is a whole lot of information on company practices in South Africa no one will ever get anyway," she said. "If they can't do anything about it, why bother at all with the attempt?" she added...
Nobody wants to play with me. My roommates have exams and don't appreciate my dribbling drills. I don't own cross-country skis, and there's no snow anyway. The Lowell House superintendent says I'm such a bad squash player I should not get court time. And E. Sid says he's tired of losing free-throw shooting contests to a girl...
...Shoes. The American counterculture claimed the Swabian mystic as a guru of its own discovery, its subterranean priest. That was perhaps an instructive case of self-absorbed audience imitating self-obsessed author. In fact, Hesse during his astonishingly long career had been appropriated by three other generations (in Germany, anyway) as their own secret voice. Hesse possessed a strange, lifelong affinity for adolescents, for their intense spiritual questing and abused sense of exclusion. The affinity was natural. The novelist remained something of an adolescent himself for all of his 85 years...
...Leader continues to represent the "objective will of the people." If this is how you really feel, then why not just come right out and say so? I don't know anyone who is fooled by your rhetoric about the Corporation's commitment to "free and open debate" anyway. Peter Sacks...