Word: cuttingly
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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Carter is likely to win agreement only on the principle that production of synthetic fuels should be encouraged?no international body, and no pledges of hard cash. The seven nations doubtless will exchange promises to cut oil imports and to expand production of coal and nuclear power, but not bind themselves to any specific steps to reach any of those goals...
...trucking firms will put up more resistance to deregulation than the airlines did, even though in the case of that industry, renewed competition has boosted profits at the same time that it has cut fares. The major trucking companies are adamantly opposed to any change in rules that have kept competitors out and profits high, and they are staunchly supported by the 100,000 Teamsters who work for them. (The independents belong to no union.) Both the trucking companies and the Teamsters have a powerful ally in Howard Cannon, chairman of the Senate Commerce Committee, who has already traded barbs...
However valid the criticisms, the program does signal a switch in Government solar funding away from expensive and Utopian projects to simpler projects in individual homes, where oil consumption can be cut immediately...
...cut down government casualties, Somoza's troops last week began to shell rebel positions with heavy artillery before moving in to retake streets of Managua's barrios "yard by yard." But the indiscriminate shelling, along with devastating bomb and rocket attacks by Somoza's air force, has killed far more civilians than Sandinistas...
...Weaver) and his brother Victor (Mitchell Ryan) was the financial castration of their father in the Great Crash of '29. Victor abandoned his natural bent for science and joined the police force to provide a se cure home for the old man. Unwilling to share that responsibility, Walter cut out, earned his way through medical school and became a successful doctor. His bad nerves are the price of ill-buried remorse and of ordering his life by the jungle code...