Word: burning
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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Consumers will lead the way down. They are running out of cash, credit and savings; also, they will have to pay much more for oil-related goods and services as varied as food and rents (tractors and furnaces burn fuel). So consumers will be obliged to buy less of almost everything else, notably cars, appliances and other durable goods. Squeezed by tight money, the construction rate of new homes and apartments could go as low as 1.2 million by March. As demand wanes, businessmen will further reduce production and inventories. But by late fall or early winter, their shelves...
...enough caviar to hurt, however: even in Vermont, which is expected to burn more than 400,000 cords this winter (up from 300,000 last year), the heating oil saved amounts to only 60 million gal., about a third of the state's annual consumption in recent years. In the meantime, new problems are cropping up. Wood thefts are on the rise: one well-equipped thief got away with a haul of 35 cords from a lumberyard in northern New Hampshire. And there are more and more warnings of pollution from wood smoke. Wood has little sulfur, compared to coal...
Cause we could take our BBguns Blow your buns to the sun Just our Boy Scouts could wipe you out. Some day soon, Khomeini You'll burn one flag too many Uncle Sam has got his pride You 're about to feel his clout...
Time enough, in 15 years, for three new generations and a dozen new audiences. The Who has outpaced them all. Time enough for a bewilderment of pop styles to flare, settle, burn out. The Who has outlasted them all. Too much time for most rock bands to survive. The Who, in every sense of the word, has outlived them all, and outclassed them...
...there. And The Who has taken up permanent residence. The danger that pervades this territory is not a matter of threat, but a kind of proud, blind, spiritual recklessness, forming a musical brotherhood that could be bound by the words of Russian Poet Andrei Voznesensky: "To live is to burn...