Word: efforts
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...consensus is building behind the idea of setting up a Government funding for a crash effort to produce synthetic fuels in the U.S., even if other nations will not go along. A House education and labor subcommittee last week approved a synthetic-fuels bill, blandly ignoring the fact that it has no jurisdiction in the matter. Chairman Henry ("Scoop") Jackson called the Senate Energy Committee together at the unheard-of hour of 7 a.m. last Wednesday to start work on his own synthetic-fuels bill. Said Scoop: "People who never saw the sun rise are now getting up before dawn...
...Governors of New Jersey and Connecticut also instituted alternate-day gas-buying plans. Connecticut Governor Ella Grasso ordered stations to sell no less than $4 worth of gas to owners of four-cylinder cars and $6 at a time to those driving higher powered vehicles-all in an effort to reduce tank topping. She asked every mayor or selectman in the state's 169 cities and towns to appoint a coordinator to work out gas station schedules so that some will always be open...
...solar energy. His inauguration stand was partly heated by the sun's rays, and on Sun Day last year he called for a "dawning of the second solar age." The Administration's new program is by no means the large-scale and probably wasteful crash effort advocated by solar enthusiasts at the Council on Environmental Quality and the Environmental Protection Agency. But it does call for $646 million to be spent on research in fiscal 1980. The program would be funded in part by revenues from the windfall tax on oil company profits from price deregulation. Said Energy...
...gotten a lot of letters," Zeckhauser said. "They have gone to all parts of the University," Brewer added, saying President Bok put him in charge of the relocation effort for the state to "show his personal interest in the situation...
...students waiting in the housing office line for rooms did not always appreciate the administration's effort at finding rooms. "It's a disaster, "one student said, adding, "i asked for a room in the medical area and got one on the fifth floor of a dorm with broken pipes...