Word: direly
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...million-bbl.-a-day gap in the first three months of 1974 are based on so-called worst-case assumptions. These include a steady climb in demand, a cold winter and a cutback in Canadian oil exports to the U.S. So far, energy experts note, none of these dire fears have actually come true. In addition, gasless Sundays and other conservation measures outlined by the President two weeks ago could cut deeply into fuel consumption. These measures, coupled with an encouraging shift from oil to coal by several utility companies, lead some Federal officials to feel that the shortfall could...
Thus if men and women of superior intelligence intermarried only among themselves, the dire consequence would be indeed as Herrnstein predicts--a hereditary, intelligent elite far removed from a much larger pool of undistinguished and anonymous persons. However Herrnstein ignores entirely the known history and scientific studies showing that highly intelligent persons usually mate with persons with other qualities and that consequently intelligence tends constantly to equalize in the population. As is well known, successive generations of once-outstanding families return, sometimes gradually but sometimes quite abruptly, into the anonymity of the general pool; conversely, outstanding individuals regularly emerge from...
...that the program is finally in effect, additional conservation steps will be necessary. The Administration could, for example, ask Congress to impose a 10% tax on gasoline. That might reduce demand and allow refineries to shift some production from gasoline to heating oil. If the situation becomes dire, the Administration might even have to ration gasoline and diesel fuel at the consumer level. That step would be taken only with great reluctance. Says Love: "If there's any way to avoid end-use rationing, it should be used. Nothing would intrude more into people's lives...
This noble American institution presently appears to be in some jeopardy. Across the U.S. there are reports of a dire shortage of toilets. Hospitals, homes, schools and office buildings, habitable in all other respects, still stand idle because their bathrooms have not been completed. One of the reasons for the shortage is a recent ten-week strike that shut down the major manufacturers of vitreous china, the substance used in the construction of toilets. But another problem is the soaring demand for bathrooms. While there were 35 home toilets per 100 Americans in 1960, the number increased...
...slowing, the dollar is beleaguered, the stock market is shaky, and inflation ravages the land. Even President Nixon concedes that "confidence in our management of our fiscal affairs is low." But bad times are boom times for a special breed of economic forecaster who makes a living by predicting dire troubles and suggesting ways to avoid them...