Word: costs
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...from their home states, warning of imminent layoffs and plant closings if an adequate gas supply was not assured. Workers and shareholders were also urged to write or wire their Senators; the argument was made that even though their gas bills might increase under deregulation, a gas shortage could cost them more by imperiling their dividend checks and their pensions. A group of 28 public relations people in Washington assembled arguments in favor of deregulation and sent packets out to field offices around the country...
...many communities in south Texas, though just as hard hit, have been able to scrape by without having their gas turned off. But the hardships have been real. With the cost of exploration rising, producers have hiked prices for most consumers from 36? per 1,000 cu. ft. in 1972 to more than six times that amount today. For an average family, that means a bill running anywhere from $40 to $70 higher per month. Many people have had to move to smaller houses, others double up with relatives. Farmers have curtailed planting-gas is needed for irrigation pumps...
...Antonio was rudely awakened from what city officials referred to as a "cheap energy drunk." Curtailments of gas forced the city to adopt emergency conservation measures, including converting the city's electrical power generators to higher-cost fuel oil and reducing street lighting. For the past five years, an average of 156 people a day have telephoned or visited the city utility offices asking for some kind of relief or further credit or, at least, that their gas not be shut...
...what I've been responsible for, for what's been the result and the damage to many, many people and I think to our whole governmental system." In a letter that Haldeman sent to Sirica before he was sentenced last June, he wrote: "I recognize the terrible cost to the nation that this whole Watergate case has represented, and I will carry for the rest of my life the burden of knowing that I played a major role in that tragedy...
...outskirts of Kobe under the eyes of police guards, one local gang boss out on bail defiantly described the yakuza as "lotus flowers on a sea of mud." Said he: "We're flotsam of society, but we're dedicated to our own code of honor at the cost of our own lives. If I as a boss didn't control my boys, the city would be worse off-call us a necessary social evil." Increasingly, it appears, the Japanese consider them evil -but no longer necessary...