Word: dependently
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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Much will depend on whether the rest of the nation follows California in gas-buying habits. For the past three weeks, Golden State drivers have been in a kind of panic, scrambling to buy every last drop available. Lines as long as eight blocks have formed at those gas stations still open; motorists have waited three hours or more to fill up. At some stations, drivers who rose groggily at dawn to hunt for gas have had to queue up behind long lines of cars parked and locked by people who had left them there overnight. Fights with guns, knives...
Carter admits there is an oil crisis, but he opposes the most important thing that can be done to meet this crisis: developing a transportation system that does not depend 100 per cent on the automobile and the airplane. This means a rail system, because: (1) with sufficient traffic, railroads are the most fuel-efficient form of transportation; and (2) railroads can and should be electrified (as in Europe) because electricity can be generated by almost any fuel. It will take years to develop such a system, and we can not wait until the oil is gone to begin...
...Crimson chances depend on upsets down the order. Gutsy Scott Walker must win against Steve Meister at three. Bob Horne will have to cope with the big serve of Jim Zimmerman at four, a man who outhit a herpes-ridden Lapidus earlier in the year in the Princeton Invitational...
...worst offender is the so-called entitlements program. It was set up under Gerald Ford in 1974 to equalize the burdens of surging import prices between refineries that depend on expensive foreign oil and those with supplies of low-cost domestic petroleum. The complex program works this way: for every barrel of domestic crude that a refinery processes, the company must make a payment into an entitlement pool. The payment raises the price of each barrel of domestic oil halfway up to the cost of more expensive OPEC crude. At the same time, any refinery that imports costlier OPEC crude...
Ultimately, the future of the comunidades could well depend less on their theology than on whether they can avoid the appearance of being merely adjuncts of Marxist revolution in the hemisphere. For the present, the region's poor have the last word. Says Volta Redonda Housewife Sebastiana of the comunidades: "They are schools where we learn to be somebody...