Word: cuttingly
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...Indeed, it's the very banality of such measures that is the primary problem with conservation--the approach just doesn't lend itself to any heart-rending, grandiose scheme like the Manhattan Project or landing a man on the moon. But the Energy Project believes such simple measures could cut U.S. energy consumption by almost as much as all the oil, domestic as well as imported, used in the nation...
...taken without regard for their general effects, one of which will be to cause a certain amount of recession. Together with the inflation in the present-day world, this recession will upset the economy even more. I am especially concerned for the developing nations, which are going to be cut as if by a pair of scissors. One of the scissors blades is the price of oil. The other is recession in the powerful countries, which will impede exports from the poor nations, thereby cutting off their possibilities for development...
...intrigue, the company is not likely to suffer much. Upheavals on foreign currency markets have cut into ITT's overseas earnings since April, but that is beyond the power of any management to control. By just about every other measure ITT, which last year earned a record $662 million on sales of $15.2 billion, remains healthy...
Lucy's doctor father, occasionally look as if they would have liked to cut loose a little but were not allowed...
...Senator Owen Brewster of Maine, whom he thought susceptible to influence peddling, he not only recruited an opposition candidate but also got money for his campaign from Brewster's enemy Howard Hughes. As a crusader, says Anderson, Pearson "had excused in allies what he pilloried in foes, had cut corners to get there first... had on occasion crossed the line into vindictiveness so as to keep the felled foe from getting up." Perhaps a Quaker idealism, the conviction, as Anderson says, that military people "should regard war as a catastrophe, not an opportunity," helps explain Pearson's unrelenting...