Word: burnes
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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When a fire is reported, it is not necessary to report simultaneously that the vast majority of houses did not burn down. Everybody knows from their experience that this is so. But most people do not know that the vast majority of pension plans are financially sound and "good...
...figures are correct but subject to an altogether different interpretation: that tax benefits for years in effect subsidized unrealistically low oil prices, which in turn tempted corporations and consumers to burn the fuel wastefully. The best thing to do now would probably...
...argument is often heard from high-powered lobbyists in Washington -and not in jest-that the best way to stay warm this winter would be to burn the environmental protection laws. Under those laws, particularly the Clean Air Act, new curbs were put on emissions from factories and power plants: cities were told to improve air quality; the automakers had to launch a $1 billion program to clean up auto exhausts. When the Arab oil embargo hit, lobbyists for the auto, oil, coal and other industries stepped up their drives to ease the laws, citing the need to save...
...power to levy federal taxes on urban parking space after 1975 and thus to discourage driving in fume-choked cities. The third deals with some 45 power plants that the Federal Energy Office has ordered to switch from oil to coal; these plants will be allowed to burn the dirty fuel, without having to meet air-quality standards until...
...automatic access to TV. But if electronic journalists must pair every discovery of specific ills with assurances of general health, the result will be a bland journalism that serves no one's interest. "A fire is reported," says Reuven Frank, "but not the houses that didn't burn." Should network producers like Frank decide that they must use news time for programs, on unburnt houses, they will be apt to avoid tough subjects entirely. The eventual settlement of the NBC case is certain to have enormous impact on the future of TV and radio reporting...