Word: better
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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German cowboy and Indian buffs may be more accurately informed about the American West than Americans are, as the young West Berliner claimed [June 18], but the American West lives on today in the form of the frontier myth-a very potent influence, for better or worse, on the American national character. Be our view of the Old West ever so phony, we are living...
...leaders agreed because they knew that in the face of the OPEC threat they could not afford to leave Tokyo without some sort of accord. But the import limits are the kind of solution that is only to be described as better than nothing. They will be difficult to enforce, and OPEC can, if it chooses, foil them by cutting production again. At best, the limitations will hold a bad situation steady while the world goes through a painful period of inflation, slowdown or recession, conservation and conversion to alternate fuels...
...mini-panic on Wall Street at week's end. An Arab magazine quoted him as threatening to halt Libyan oil exports for up to four years and appealing to other oil producers to do the same. Said he: "The more we store the oil in our ground, the better it will...
...that sense, Boston has more beach to offer than any other major city on the East Coast. Boston's better beaches conjure up primal instincts, joy, and the privacy of grassy dunes. Some of these beaches are social wastelands strewn with trashy people with trashy instincts, but some are respected, and those that are most respectable are held by wildlife conservationists. They are open to the public, often at an ominous fee, but some are free. And they don't allow beer. And you'll need a car to get there...
...pages of Campus Shock, Lamont reports that Harvard's defenses are still basically sound. "The thing that struck me most about Harvard was that it wasn't knocked askew by one single problem....Harvard seems to have all the problems, but for some reason they deal with them better. I don't know whether they spend more time, or they're smarter, or whether it's the fact that they're simply Harvard...