Word: cope
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...fairness, Jimmy Carter has had an intellectual grasp of the energy problem since the day he walked into the Oval Office. He rightly declared the moral equivalent of war early in his term to cope with the impending crisis. He got little help from any other segment of American society. And transferring his statistical conclusions into leadership in such a hostile environment has been and remains an immense problem. Having formulated the energy plan and declared it publicly, he turned to other things. Energy slipped down his list...
...President to be uncomprehending of the forces that could be unleashed by an energy crunch. He insisted in his best Sunday-school manner that U.S. citizens would voluntarily adjust to energy inconvenience. His uneventful weeks as Georgia Governor during the 1973 oil embargo further clouded his view. America could cope without a lot of shouting from above...
...wages of modern celebrity. It also makes a case against the cult of youth by demonstrating the grotesque lengths to which some people will go to try to cheat mortality. Since only a few thousand of the world's most privileged people are in a position to cope with these problems, it is hard to work up much moral indignation about them...
...public about the hazards of nuclear power, it also proved, frighteningly enough, that the experts sometimes did not tell the whole story simply because they did not know it. Joseph M. Hendrie, chairman of the Nuclear Regulatory Commission, said of himself and other officials, as they tried to cope with an incipient meltdown: "We are operating . . . like a couple of blind men staggering around making decisions...
...Crimson chances depend on upsets down the order. Gutsy Scott Walker must win against Steve Meister at three. Bob Horne will have to cope with the big serve of Jim Zimmerman at four, a man who outhit a herpes-ridden Lapidus earlier in the year in the Princeton Invitational...