Word: bigs
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...type of amoral, heartlessly opportunistic thinking that characterizes the worst decision-making in government today--the type of thinking that, to read the school's catalogue, it is pledged to eliminate. At best, the school's decision was thoughtless, and at worst a frightening indicator of the ability of big money to legitimize even the grossest immorality...
...COULD have been New York, except for the garden hose. They don't have gardens in New York, and carbon monoxide is everywhere. It could have been any big city, any middle city, this drying up of hope and wetting down of sorrow. It happens all the time, anonymously, in cities...
...COULD have been New York, except for the garden hose. They don't have gardens in New York, and carbon monoxide is everywhere. It could have been any big city, any middle city, this drying up of hope and wetting down of sorrow. It happens all the time, anonymously, in cities...
...confusing interpretations: Are they a temporary inconvenience or ominous intimations of the future? The last gas crisis, in 1973-74, subsided soon enough. Perhaps this one will as well? According to the Gallup poll, more than three-quarters of Americans still believe that current gasoline shortages are a Big Oil contrivance. If decontrol begins, the assumption goes, prices will rise well above $1 a gallon...
...still difficult to persuade Americans that such cynical calculations are pretty much beside the point, that even if the big oil companies were withholding gas supplies in order to await higher prices, the overall scarcity of oil is real, absolute and ultimately irreversible. The U.S., with 28.6% of the industrial West's population, accounts for 70% of its daily consumption of crude oil. Even with U.S. gas prices going up toward $1 a gallon, Americans are still paying unusually low prices; Europeans for years have been paying two or three times as much for gas as Americans. The price...