Word: conservationists
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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Surprisingly, it was Douglas who spoke for the majority. Obviously reflecting his conservationist leanings, he found it "reasonable, not arbitrary" to "lay out zones where family values, youth values and the blessings of quiet seclusion and clean air make the area a sanctuary for people." Only Dissenter Thurgood Marshall felt that such zoning transparently discriminates "on the basis of constitutionally protected choices of lifestyle." If the village had really been worried about population density, Marshall pointed out, it could have limited the number of adults in every house, regardless of the presence or lack of familial relationships...
GETTY: Well, I don't call myself a conservationist to the extent that some enthusiasts do. In other words, I believe in the Alaska pipeline. I wouldn't expect to find the Getty Oil Co. lobbying against it, because we need oil. But I can understand the need for government controls in some areas. I don't think governments can limit the quantity of exploration. But they can decide how it can be done. There are very strict regulations in the North Sea on drilling, blowouts and so forth, and there have been no oil spills...
...nominate a true conservationist and civil libertarian for Man of the Year: Justice William O. Douglas...
...surge of conservationist enthusiasm sparked by the energy crisis, lights and appliances are being turned off at every hand. But such self-denial should be managed with discrimination; some savings are worthwhile, and others are minuscule. A sampling of the energy consumption of various kinds of gear at average 1972 electricity prices...
...both Columbia and Yale) and as a combative chairman of the Securities and Exchange Commission under the New Deal. (When stock-exchange representatives once argued long and repetitively in favor of self-regulation, Douglas closed them off with an explosive "Hooey!") He will also be remembered as a prescient conservationist and, of course, as the court's most activist liberal judge from the beginning...