Word: doe
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...Department of Energy, which has to approve all company rationing and allocation plans, maintains that motorists will not have to worry about severe or long-term shortages-unless they panic and start trying to keep their gas tanks full at all times. Warns a top DOE official: "If people get a crisis mentality, we could get a problem that really isn't there." Adds Frank Ikard, president of the American Petroleum Institute: "The thing that I fear most is that the public will think the Shell announcement is the prelude to general rationing. If they do, we could talk...
...debatable whether all the alchemy doe:s much more than remind customers to cleanse their skin thoroughly and regularly-a good habit, like brushing the teeth. At the very least the treatments massage the psyche. Says Arpel's Newman: "We're cheaper than a psychiatrist, we're more fun, we'll listen to all the problems you want to tell us, and you'll come out looking a whole lot better...
...sort of doe-eyed dumbness that will surely make him a cult object in certain circles. They will also be pleased to take this perfect imitation of James Dean's mannerisms as evidence that he can act, though he is mostly required to stand around as a prettily passive victim, prettiness being the main thing separating him from all the other victims endlessly degraded and beaten in sundry picturesque ways throughout the film...
...Department of Energy expects an annual increase in gas production of 2 trillion cu. ft.; the congressional budget office estimates an additional .7 to .8 trillion cu.ft. a year; consumer groups that favored the bill say no increase at all will occur. Both the Senate Energy Committee and DOE predict that by 1985 greater production of natural gas will save the nation 1.4 million bbl. a day in imported oil. Consumer groups deny there will be any such saving. Much depends, of course, on how innumerable lawyers interpret a bill that even they have trouble understanding. But at least, after...
...officials became so frustrated by foot-dragging and the lack of support from their superiors that they complained publicly. A former auditor of the old Federal Energy Administration, Dale Kuehn, went public to describe how his memos suggesting that cases should be "prosecuted with dispatch" were habitually ignored. A DOE investigator, Joe McNeff, went to the subcommittee in June; he said he found in Houston "$1 billion worth of fraud, four auditors, no secretary and no support...