Word: cautious
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...days before Kissinger spoke, the long-awaited report on Project Independence, prepared by the Federal Energy Administration, was made public. The report lays out supply and demand choices from which Government policymakers might choose. The study is cautious about the potential of alternative energy sources. But it argues that by exploiting both these sources and domestic oil reserves and by adopting a strenuous, mandatory conservation program, the nation can cut its total annual growth in energy use from the 4% to 5% rate of recent years to as low as 2% by 1985. Among the conservation options: federal standards...
People are out there in the land of Midcult, My Not-So-Dear Editor, who should be warned against Marshall McLuhan (compared to whom "Spengler is cautious and Toynbee positively pedantic"). Buckminster Fuller (whose prose reads like Archie the cockroach with his capital shift working). And of course Tom Wolfe-"Parajournalist!" -who presumed to attack The New Yorker, the Golden Arches Macdonald calls home. Could a Macdonald enemies list be complete without those sparring partners Cozzens (James Gould) and Cousins (Norman), the author of By Love Possessed who was by Macdonald savaged and the editor of Saturday Review/World? (When Macdonald...
...possible to discuss the future of the West Bank with Hussein. The Secretary also told the Israelis that in his view the Arabs, despite the summit, had left themselves an encouraging amount of room for continued negotiations. Any progress toward peace, however, was likely to be slower and more cautious. "We're past the home run hitting stage in the Middle East," one member of Kissinger's party explained. The metaphor might have been lost on Israeli listeners, but the emphasis on "quiet diplomacy" was clear...
...policies, pension reform and restriction of the President's warmaking powers. Legislative aides have voted him the second most effective Senator (after Democrat Henry M. Jackson) and the most intelligent. But in the aftermath of Watergate, his virtues have the appearance of vices to some outraged citizens. A cautious, scrupulous politician, he rarely speaks out on an issue until he has absorbed all the facts. He was not a perfervid critic of Nixon during Watergate, and on occasion defended the beleaguered President. For this reason, he is sometimes portrayed as a political trimmer without sufficient principle at a time...
Home Fortress. Americans are becoming more cautious, cynical of Government efforts to control inflation, and more home-centered. Despite high costs, people are still spending heavily on home improvement. Since fewer people can afford foreign travel, more are turning to cheaper local diversions-movie attendance is up 20% over 1973. Some sociologists believe that as mobility decreases and the idea of the home as a fortress takes hold, neighborhoods will grow more conservative and more hostile to outsiders-be they blacks bused in to schools or addicts brought into stable communities for treatment. Psychologists predict life in the fortress will...