Word: drivered
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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Though advocates of continued price controls often dispute the point, evidence proves that rising gasoline prices reduce consumption. Studies by Economist Alan Greenspan and others show that when prices go up 10%, gas sales from 1.5% to 2% per licensed driver. Argues Greenspan, "It is clear that a very large part of the driving public consciously or unconsciously is quite sensitive to price...
Last week the Administration disclosed the details of its proposed emergency rationing plan. Each registered vehicle would be limited to a fixed number of gallons per week, and any driver who did not use his quota could sell his ration coupons on a "white market" for whatever the traffic would bear. Congress rejected a similar scheme last May, and adoption of almost any rationing plan is not expected before next autumn-unless Middle East...
...simple solution for dealing with the Iranians: "We ought to shoot the sons of bitches." Says Bob Brubaker, a wheat farmer in western Kansas: "I'm beginning to think that we should either seize their oilfields or destroy them if we can." Frank McVey, a New York truck driver, would not even wait to see what happens to the hostages. Says he: "We might as well write off the hostages; they're going to be killed no matter what we do. We should bomb the hell out of that country so it will be a long time before anyone else...
...cabdriver in Peking who told me his son had worked very hard but failed the test the first year," she continues. "The driver told me, 'Now he spends every day in the library studying. I don't have much culture and I can't help him. I hope he passes...
Silber's belligerence melts as he recalls a previously unreported incident that is at odds with his reputation for callousness. A year ago he hired an attorney with his own money to defend a young cab driver charged with murder. The cabbie's brother, a security guard at B.U., had told Silber of the situation: the court-appointed attorney was trying to convince the defendant to plead guilty in exchange for only a 20-year sentence. Outraged at this, Silber retained a different attorney and the man was later acquitted. The second attorney, George V. Higgins of Boston, says Silber...