Word: california
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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Conklin, 36, should know. As associate director of aquaculture at the University of California's Bodega Marine Laboratory, he has been involved in one of the more promising lobster-farming experiments to date. For seven years, marine biologists, chemists, geneticists and nutritionists, working in two small concrete blockhouses on the waterfront of Bodega Bay, a quiet fishing village about two hours' drive northwest of San Francisco, have been unraveling the puzzle of mass-producing lobsters...
...Chicago is serious. California is solemn...
...Hayakawa, California Senator (who earlier had maintained that the poor do not require gasoline because they are not working), at Pepperdine: "Who are these people waiting in the long lines at the gas stations? Well, virtually all of them are people who need gas to get to work, and they need to work in order to pay their taxes so that the poor will be supported...
Since the early '70s, Americans have been flirting reluctantly with a complicated and grudging awareness about themselves and their orgies of fossil burning. But they are still in the quibbling stage, in what psychologists call a period of "defensive avoidance." The gas lines that started in California and have begun to spread across the country like a rumor are still open to 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...
Americans are a people capable of extraordinary ingenuity and unexpected self-discipline when they come up hard against something they see as a real emergency. When California's Marin County was confronted with a drought two years ago, for example, residents shared the burden of sacrifice with remarkable success, revising their life-styles to accommodate the need. But Americans are also a breathtakingly forgetful people who are simply not moved to change their lives very much in consideration of the long range...