Word: dispell
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Show and Tell. To help dispel public doubts about the shortage, oil companies have begun releasing previously secret figures on their inventories of crude oil and refined products. On Saturday, Nixon promised to submit legislation requiring the oil firms to "provide a full accounting" of their inventories, reserves, production and costs. "I will not allow the American people to be victims of a snow job," he said. Exxon became the fifth major firm to make the disclosures. The companies' figures generally show that stocks of crude and most petroleum products are about the same as or slightly higher than...
...same phrases ("We want to be able to prepare for the worst" or "The day of cheap energy is over"). If people stop listening, that could badly hurt Simon's program, which depends greatly on voluntary cooperation. In particular, public boredom with Simon could foil his attempts to dispel the growing suspicion that the energy shortage is a phony...
...schools,* the N.C.A.A. delegates' only other major recruiting decision was to reject a proposal to restrict recruiting contacts with prospects. Instead, they voted to let collegiate athletes play one sport professionally without losing the right to compete in other college sports. The unexpected decision hardly seems calculated to dispel the play-for-pay attitude that is prevalent on so many campuses...
While the two leads can scarcely dispel the powerful memory of the 1958 Lunt-Fontanne production, they establish their own interpretations with unstrained validity. Rachel Roberts brings a commandingly icy meanness to Clara while hinting at a lost tenderness. In recent seasons, John McMartin has established himself as an actor of distinctive range. He has played the disenchanted author in Follies, the skeptical servant Sganarelle in Moliere's Don Juan, and the mask-divided soul Dion Anthony in O'Neill's The Great God Brown. Now, as the hero of The Visit, he is initially bland, wistfully...
...This power plant we're proposing is the first one of its kind in this part of the country for many years," Charles Steele, an AP&L spokesman, said yesterday. "One picture is worth a thousand words, and seeing actual plants in operation helps to dispel some of the fears people have...