Word: crunchingly
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...crunch of politics since then, the President and the Congressman have ceased to be friends, but O'Neill knew him long enough to offer an insight into his personality that he feels may partially explain Watergate. Because he is such a loner, suggests O'Neill, the President does not do enough personal assessing of the men being considered for his staff, taking them on the judgment of others. What is more, says O'Neill, "Nixon is well briefed-but he's briefed the way his people think he wants to be briefed...
Thoughtful environmentalists see the energy crunch as a potential blessing. They figure that any resolution of the energy problem will go hand-in-hand with a solution to environmental problems. For example, if car pooling becomes popular, it will not only conserve gasoline but will also reduce smog. If ways are found to clean up coal, that will not only expand the energy supply but also help the environment. Moreover, the energy shortage shows that resources are finite and must be conserved. The crisis, environmentalists say, has thus accomplished what they could not. For one thing, Americans have started thinking...
...first met Mike as a sophomore--and was terrified. He was a squat 5 ft. 10 in. and tipped in at about 225. Despite a bawdy sense of humor, he liked to crunch people both on and off the field. I was always a little uneasy in his presence--he always seems to ooze a potential for mayhem...
Railroad enthusiasts in recent years have ranked somewhere between walrus watchers and Zeppelin buffs. Now, they have emerged as the Cassandras of the energy crunch...
...Sagan, it is scientifically possible for Mars to harbor "macro-organisms" the size of polar bears, who crunch rocks for water, sport silicon skins to protect themselves against deadly sunburn, and hibernate for thousands of years at a stretch. Sagan also contemplates astro-engineered civilizations so far advanced that their accomplishments would seem to us "indistinguishable from magic." He can easily imagine intergalactic, rapid-transit routes where "an object that plunges down a rotating black hole may re-emerge elsewhere and elsewhen-in another place and another time...