Word: doe
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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Officials at DOE remain publicly confident that a supply crunch can be avoided this year, but privately they are not so sure. Says one Schlesinger aide: "We're walking a fine line. We want the public to be aware that we are facing a potentially serious situation so that people will conserve oil, but we don't want to scare them...
...sorts, but the tax provisions of the Carter energy program do not give homeowners credits for the purchase of wood stoves, even though such credits are granted to families that save energy by adding insulation, solar panels and even windmills to their homes. One idea getting some attention from DOE officials is a feasibility study by a subsidiary of New Hampshire's Wheelabrator-Frye Inc. to build a wood-fueled electricity-and steam-generating plant in New England that would produce 30 megawatts, or enough to supply all the electricity and heating for a community of 30,000. Cost...
...appeared in 1974. Handkerchiefs may provoke a similar response from literal-minded viewers. Like Going Places, it focuses on two libidinous buddies (again played by Gérard Depardieu and Patrick Dewaere) who will try anything to satisfy the seemingly frigid woman (Carol Laure) they crave. Since the doe-eyed heroine, Solange, appears to be a mindless sex object and the heroes are winning rakes, Blier all but invites condemnation as a sexist. But this film maker doesn't brood over trendy labels; he's willing to risk offending people to get what he wants. In Handkerchiefs, Blier...
...only 75% of what they had received during the same period of 1977, Shell was able to ease off a bit last week and increase deliveries to 85% of last year's level. At the same time, however, the company announced that it was seeking permission from the DOE to continue curtailing deliveries until the month...
...doing so ruins their catalytic converters and makes the cars bigger polluters than ever. The EPA fears that decontrolling prices will merely widen the gap between the cost of leaded and unleaded gas and encourage more drivers to skirt the law that requires unleaded in new cars. Says one DOE official about the panoply of contradictory regulations: "There is no doubt that we have really screwed things...