Word: conservee
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THE U.S. superficially would seem well able to withstand a sellers' boycott. The nation now imports about a third of the 17 million bbl. of oil it burns each day, but no more than 11% comes from the Arab countries. Cutbacks could prompt other major suppliers to reduce sales...
If the Arab nations carry out their oil cutbacks, the U.S. could wind up 2,000,000 bbl. short of the 17 million bbl. that it consumes each day. Energy experts in government, business and academe have been pumping out suggestions to help consumers conserve fuel. For example, one immediate...
ELECTRICITY. Short of tossing away unnecessary gadgets like electric toothbrushes and shoeshine kits, one of the fastest ways to conserve energy is to switch to fluorescent lighting, which requires far less power than the ordinary-and highly inefficient-light bulb, but gives off from three to seven times as much...
Newspapers large and small are feeling the squeeze: last week the Wall Street Journal announced "a painful step," told readers it was reducing news, editorial and ad space and skimping on newsstand copies. Weeklies and smaller dailies that have no private mills, no huge standing orders with suppliers and no...
He says the bugging apparatus that McCord had bought was faulty and secondhand, even though McCord billed Liddy for new equipment. While he was inside the Watergate, McCord turned down his walkie-talkie or turned it off, apparently to conserve batteries. "There were just too many things that went wrong...