Word: developement
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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While efforts to develop a U.S. energy policy have been stymied by endless wrangling within Congress and between the legislators and the White House, the nation's energy situation has deteriorated. Domestic production of oil has declined steadily during the past year, and a relaxation of public conservation measures and the nation's quickening economic pace have caused U.S. oil imports to return to pre-Arab embargo levels. Indeed, the U.S. has become more dependent than ever...
...domestic crude, which is now frozen at $5.25 per bbl., would be allowed to rise to $7.50 also-but only over a five-year period. The House bill would please consumers, since it would hold down energy prices, but oilmen argue that the measure would stifle the incentive to develop new wells...
...serves to emphasize her moral, if it can be called that--her statement about the need for love, a collective need to protect one another in a world which is ultimately inhospitable. These are, after all, the memoirs of a survivor--ultimately one can survive anything if bonds can develop between those who struggle. Not bonds of the gang, which works together only to survive, but those of real affection which can only develop as people learn to assume responsibility for one another, to protect one another from the holocaust...
...together with the World Championship Tennis title that he won in Dallas last May, puts Ashe at the very top of his profession for the first time. Son of a policeman, he learned tennis at the age of ten from a black physician in Richmond, Va., who hoped to develop the first black player to win the national Interscholastic Championships. Ashe won that tournament in 1961. As a freshman at U.C.L.A. in 1963, he achieved top-ten ranking among U.S. tennis players and has remained there...
...historical record, capitalism clearly is more enriching?in every major way. Capitalism, says Eckstein, "is the only engine that has been developed so far that encourages people to be highly innovative, to develop new products and processes." Profit-seeking capitalists have developed all the vital machines of "postindustrial" society. In contrast, centrally managed economies have rarely done well at developing civilian high-technology industry?largely because inventors lack incentive. In socialist economies the same lack has led to appalling shoddiness in many of the services that provide life's amenities...