Word: approachers
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...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...
Eventually, sweeping structural and attitudinal changes in the country's approach to energy production will have to be made as oil becomes less available at any price. But such changes need to be begun while the old system can still operate, not after it has collapsed or become prohibitively costly. In order to buy time while energy sources that don't involve radiation poisoning or incredible pollution are developed, serious conservation measures must be undertaken...
...government will have to continue to limit demand for food through rationing, however, if it is to approach targeted levels of growth, Timmer said...
...states last year. Among them were two Democrats: Massachusetts' Ed King, a former professional football lineman and director of the state port authority, and Alabama's Fob James, a millionaire manufacturer of sporting goods. Both charged into office in January promising business-like administrations and a fresh approach to solving problems. Since they have taken office, however, the two have met with astonishingly different results: King is foundering badly, while James is off to a successful start...
...these flaws in Sellars' production stem more from inevitabilities in Chekhov's play than from major failures of direction. The Loeb crew finds the pulses and rhythms of The Three Sisters and lets them dictate the approach. The result is a show that moves, inspires, and sometimes sings in a lonely, tortured voice...