Word: efforts
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...hours earlier in Geneva, the 13-nation Organization of Petroleum Exporting Countries will also gather-and take a step that will surely make the energy squeeze worse: another increase in price. Meanwhile, demands are rising both in the Congress and from the U.S. public that Washington launch a war-effort type of national program of cooperation by Government and industry to end U.S. dependence on OPEC...
...Administration has repeatedly emphasized, conservation is a necessary component of any energy program, and Americans are more prepared to support the effort than they are given credit for. A New York Times/CBS News poll last week showed, for instance, that the public would far prefer gasoline rationing to the present skyrocketing price of the fuel...
...needs all the energy that it can possibly get from within its own borders, and a NASA-or Manhattan Project-type effort would signal to OPEC's price gougers that their days of unrestricted domination and tyranny over the world's biggest single market for oil are coming...
Reports TIME Washington Correspondent Jonathan Beaty, who studied hundreds of Firestone documents: "Internal Firestone corporate records turned over to the NHTSA last year show that top Firestone managers-including President Mario A. Di Federico, who has just announced his resignation-were deeply enmeshed in the several years' effort to deal with and correct the failure problems of the 500 and were, from the beginning, aware of the tire's flaws. The documents show that while Di Federico and virtually all other top executives at one time or another were receiving detailed reports about tire failure from their...
...their normal working lives have jobs, roles, friends and routines to diffuse and absorb emotions. In the theater of a summer house, family issues 20 years buried are liable to come up thrashing like lobsters. The husband gets drunk and insults his visiting brother, who makes a ghastly effort to climb in bed with the au pair. The wife, who discovers that her vacation consists of the same cleaning and cooking that she enjoyed at home, considers swimming to the mainland in the middle of the night, since the ferryboats aren't running...