Word: coping
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Worries about the Middle East, about relations with the Japanese and the Europeans, to say nothing of maintaining the shaky detente with the Russians. Worry, in the light of Watergate, about the wonderfully delicate system of American government. Can something designed in the 18th century, the century of reason, cope with the large and complex problems of today...
When Nixon signed a lavish $407 million appropriation for Amtrak only last month, he asserted that strengthening the nation's rail system was necessary to cope with the energy shortage. And a Transportation Department study for the White House indicates that any abrupt halt in rail service by the bankrupt carriers would boost the national unemployment rate by 3% and lower the gross national product by 2.7% within two months. That seems an extravagant prediction, but the Administration is hardly likely to risk any derailment of the economy on top of Watergate and the energy crisis...
While politicians and bureaucrats in Washington tried to agree on the best ways to cope with the crisis (see following story), local officials and private citizens were taking matters into their own hands. Sometimes their energy-saving measures were more cosmetic than effective, but they were almost always imaginative. In Milwaukee, the public safety committee of the city's common council last week began meeting by candlelight. The Geauga Times Leader of Chardon, Ohio, was offering free advertising space for commuters organizing car pools. In Rensselaer, Ind., Mayor Emmett W. Eger turned off all of the city...
RETAILERS cash registers are ringing because of panic buying of products that supposedly help consumers to cope with the fuel shortage. One hot item: a clock-operated thermostat that can lower nighttime temperatures automatically after everyone is asleep. Electric heaters are also selling rapidly, as are propane-burning catalytic heaters normally used by campers. The electric heaters gulp energy prodigiously, and the propane type can be dangerous in enclosed spaces because they give off carbon monoxide fumes...
...industry. The areas will try to compensate by enticing more mid-week skiers--something they have been only mildly successful in doing in the past--and by chartering special buses for skiers hit by the fuel shortage. Despite any compensations they may devise, the ski areas may have to cope with a dilemma just the opposite of the one of the past few seasons: Instead of plenty of skiers, ample lift capacity and no snow, they may be up against drifting snow with severely limited lift operation and/or fewer than desirable $10 a day weekend customers...