Word: contentedly
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...reserves were tapped in time, the nation would not face a serious oil shortage. If automakers did not have to install antipollution equipment, cars would get much better mileage per gallon. If electric utilities were not limited to burning the scarcest of fuels-coal and oil with low sulfur content or natural gas-there would be less chance that the cities will go cold this winter. The root trouble in each of these cases is one environmental law or another, and it therefore follows that the repeal or modification of those laws could alleviate the U.S. energy crisis...
...direction in which the nation was headed last week. Congress passed a bill to speed construction of the Alaska pipeline, virtually exempting it from further challenge by environmentalists. In New York, Virginia and other states, cities were reluctantly preparing to allow power plants to burn fuels with higher sulfur content...
...testimony, it endures as a sanctuary for the impulse and energies of liberation. In times of social revolution, in Mexico, for example, a Mass may emerge, in Cox's description, as a concrete instance of the "radicalizing of false piety," a store of resonant symbols with real political content. And in times and a culture such as ours, what Cox calls "People's Religion" becomes partisan and critical, defending people from the control, domination and the catechizing perpetrated by massive bureaucratic structures...
...other standard for swimmability that the Charles fails to meet concerns its bacterial content. The biggest single reason for the river's high bacterial content, Noss said, is that during storms the sewer systems of Boston and Cambridge overflow, flooding the river with raw sewage. There are a number of plans for over $16 million worth of new collector sewers and new treatment plants, including one for storm overflows near the B.U. Bridge which will include a huge, one-and-a-half million gallon holding tank. But the new facilities probably won't solve the problem completely...
...someone like myself, the end of Sha Na Na's revitalized show is a beautiful finale to an evening's love for rock-and-roll. And sated from a superb ending to an impressive performance, and content in the knowledge that I've been given something that would endure, I can happily settle back, nodding in agreement, as Bowzer croons the final measures of the evening: Though we must part...