Word: clearings
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...feeling smugly satisfied that we know the answer. Are we willing to believe Lem, or should we suspect that he is gulling us into accepting his artifice in order to satisfy our expectation of a final solution and our need for one as well? It is not at all clear, for the novel's realism is so intense that the conclusion is entirely unconvincing. We should suspect the patness of his solution but be content in our ignorance by acknowledging Lem's masterful ability to make the alien seem so familiar and the ordinary so frighteningly unknown...
There are, of course, uncertainties and risks. Though economists are willing enough to guess, none can say with confidence what the ultimate inflationary impact of decontrol will be. Nor is it entirely clear just how much decontrol will increase domestic oil production. By Administration reckoning, the gradual phase-out of controls should encourage companies to pump more and more oil from their wells until, by 1982, production reaches an additional 700,000 to 800,000 bbl. daily (the U.S. now uses about 19 million bbl. per day). That would displace an equivalent amount of imported oil, but energy demand throughout...
...that, decontrol remains the most effective energy policy step that the President is able to take. By allowing domestic crude prices to rise to world levels, Carter has sent a clear signal to the nation's trading partners and allies that the U.S. is at long last beginning to face up to the difficult decisions forced upon it by the energy squeeze. The President's speech was widely praised in other oil-consuming countries, and the mere anticipation of what he was going to say sent the dollar soaring in Japan, gold slumping in Europe and stock prices...
...Springs is littered with squatting aborigines waiting for the bars to open, their alcoholism bankrolled by government dole. Only a few years ago, the Cinta Largas tribe in Brazil was bombed and strafed from the air, and the survivors gunned down by hunting parties, all to permit loggers to clear the tribe's lands...
...game-winning assault originated as a clear behind the Harvard goal. Brown lost possession when attackman Rick Handelman was called for holding Harvard defenseman Scott Pink's stick...