Word: conservee
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A Gutted Bill. The threat of another price increase should have moved the U.S. to take stern measures to conserve oil. Just the opposite happened last week. Acting irresponsibly, the House gutted an energy bill.
The trip to Brussels was a largely symbolic mission to overcome allies' jitters about U.S. reliability in the post-Viet Nam War era. In return, West German Chancellor Helmut Schmidt, reflecting the views of other NATO members, assured Ford: "You can rely just as much on us." A second...
J.V. coxswain Paul Chessin agreed. "Although superficially you might think 'conserve in the morning,' once things start up you go out and row."
One question that may never be settled is whether a reduction in supplies ? because of cutbacks in U.S. military aid ? fatally undermined ARVN's confidence. According to one line of argument, that same scarcity made it impossible for ARVN to continue the tactics learned from the U.S. ?...
After the U.S. entered the war in 1941, however, the "Gimo" rarely took the offensive, even when his armies were numerically superior to the Japanese. General "Vinegar Joe" Stilwell kept pressing Chiang to reorganize his army and be more aggressive. But Chiang had different priorities than his impatient American advisers...