Word: conservee
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While this and other plans to start a joint fund for recycling hold much promise, one long-lasting problem is that recycling is really a euphemism for indebtedness, and interest payments must find their way back to the oil countries. In the 1980s some OPEC members may be earning as...
(13 of 16) necessary things: conserve energy, develop new sources and stockpile oil in case of another embargo or cutback.
The Western nations will have no real bargaining strength until they show that they are taking strong measures to conserve. By significantly reducing demand, the big buyers of oil might force OPEC into production cuts that some cartel members may eventually find intolerable. Cutbacks would be particularly rough for Iran...
Even so, the consumers must conserve to show OPEC that they are serious and to hold down their payments to the cartel. Kissinger has urged that they hold their oil imports essentially flat over the next decade. For the U.S., that would mean a decline in the annual rate of...
Exhorted by then-church leaders, prodded by their consciences, painfully aware of the threat of starvation that faces millions round the world, Americans of many faiths are returning to one of religion's most ancient and enduring disciplines: fasting. So ancient is the practice of fasting that its origins...