Word: diverts
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...nation is consuming most rapidly the fuel of which it has least. It derives 43% of all energy from burning oil, but oil constitutes only 5% of domestic fuel reserves. What else should the U.S. use? Coal reserves are gigantic, and some coal men argue that Washington could profitably divert much of the money that it spends on nuclear-power research to study ways to take the sulfur out of coal smoke. But even if coal could be cleaned up, the cheapest method of digging it out of the earth is strip mining, which turns large expanses of natural beauty...
...also could route Alaskan oil to the Midwest by building a pipeline through Canada's Mackenzie River valley (TIME, March 29). This would encourage exploitation of Canadian oilfields that lie along the route. As a quid pro quo, the U.S. would have to make some guarantee to divert Venezuelan or domestically produced oil to Eastern Canada if Arab nations shut off Mideast oil. Eastern Canada is not connected by pipeline to the oilfields in the Canadian West and the Arctic, but buys Mideast crude because it is cheaper...
...offers new evidence, if any were needed, that the military bureaucracy must have strong civilian leadership to prevent waste and duplication, and that competing interests among and within the services tend to stifle innovation. Elements in the Navy, for instance, resisted the Polaris submarine project, fearing that it would divert resources from other Navy programs. In 1961, when imaginative Army thinkers devised the airmobile concept, they got a cool reception from their own superiors until McNamara's office offered encouragement. Only after the techniques of Systems Analysis established the real differences between American and Russian military capability in Europe...
...replacement. The granite balustrades, corbels, facings, cutwaters and retaining walls-10,000 tons in all-were shipped block by block across ocean and desert to be reconstructed in Lake Havasu City, an Arizona town developed from scratch by McCulloch Oil. Buying a bridge, then building a canal to divert water from the Colorado River for the bridge to cross, was an act of commercial savvy as well as historical piety...
...work with no conception of its implications for Lao nationalism. Even when he has no part of it, he cannot undo the damage done by the American war effort nor can he even rectify the image of the American oppressor. And what if he could? He only serves to divert the enthusiasm of the people from their only realistic source of security...