Word: demands
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...irresistible force is about to collide with an immovable object. The force is the average American's desire to climb into his auto and take off, regardless of revolutions in Iran, soaring gasoline prices or presidential appeals to drive less. Gasoline demand has increased 3% since last year. No decrease at all has been noticeable since President Carter in April called on every motorist to reduce driving by 15 miles a week...
...fair to suppose that even if the public had access to all knowledge about everything, there would still be a good deal of befuddlement and groping. Not many have the ability, energy and will to bone up on every issue. If it is reasonable for Americans to demand more candor, prudence-and humility-from the experts, it is also reasonable that the citizenry demand of itself ever greater diligence in using all available information, including journalism's increasingly technical harvest...
Supplies are also being crimped because demand for petroleum continues to grow. Last year's momentary surplus brought on by increased output from the North Sea and Alaska has been more than wiped out by rising consumption as well as OPEC's cutbacks. Steadily growing consumption of gasoline is causing most of the demand problem. Nearly 40% of all oil used in the U.S. goes for gasoline, and even though the price has almost doubled since 1973, the nation's 142 million motorists are burning it in record amounts. Not only have over 20 million new drivers...
...Western industrial nations want Japan to expand domestic demand and consumption by taking steps to stimulate the economy and lift average Japanese incomes. That would tend to raise imports and reduce exports because Japanese wages and other costs would go up. But such a course risks higher Japanese inflation and lower profits, which the nation's business establishment opposes. Unless the corporate chiefs relent, however, they risk the greater shock of having their access to world markets sharply curtailed. The threat of selective protectionism against Japan is rising, and it worries U.S. officials. It would dangerously damage relations with...
...South Africa, but it is the misreading of history and the (we trust) mistaken belief that the kinds of brutality and exploitation that succeeded in the past will continue to be effective in keeping the University and the corporate structure it serves in power. For Harvard, consistency does not demand divestiture and support of the non-white majority in South Africa. This would be a better and more humane place if it did. Ruth Hubbard Professor of Biology Richard C. Lewontin Professor of Biology