Word: chosen
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...chosen by O'Neill to hold the all-star special energy committee together is Ohio's Thomas Ludlow Ashley, 54, a loyal ally of the Speaker's and a popular, buoyant and diligent legislator. O'Neill also picked Ashley because he is an independent on energy (although he comes from Toledo, which has auto plants) and thus may be able to moderate the inevitably conflicting views. Does Ashley see the potential national disaster that Carter envisions? "Yes, I honest-to-God do," says he. Ashley plans to deliver a bill to the House floor...
That is a commendable-indeed, indispensable-goal. But some of Carter's chosen methods are debatable. The program largely bypasses the supply and demand workings of a free economy. Instead, the presidential plan relies heavily on rewards and penalties, to be dealt out mainly through a complex scheme of taxes and rebates. "Voluntary compliance is not enough," said Carter. "The problem is too large and the time is too short." Major items...
...reasonable to ask democratic people for self-sacrifice for limited periods of time for a clearly defined purpose," he says, "but I see no sense in it for an indefinite period." Yet an indefinite period of self-discipline is what Americans face. Perhaps the President should have chosen a more appropriate metaphor; the current crisis is more like an open-ended siege than a war with an expected end. Barring some technological miracle, that siege will persist beyond this generation and its survivors. It must be borne a bit at a time until Americans revise the way they live. Contrary...
Nine finalists, chosen by a faculty committee last month from over 40 entrants, recited pieces by a variety of writers, including Donne, Browning, Yeats and Dylan Thomas...
...course, one of these two men could still be chosen any day, and then you'll say that this column is pointless. Right? Wrong, because it won't erase the fact that the committee's first choice was Williams' Robert Peck, who, for one reason or another, was not given...