Word: ende
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...York Correspondent John Tompkins, who reported extensively for a TIME cover story on Exxon in 1974, interviewed Exxon executives and other oil gamesters for this week's story, and found the situation markedly changed. "I didn't realize five years ago that I was seeing the end of an era," he says. "Oilmen then were still somewhat fat and happy, confident that they'd surmount the energy crisis." This time, Tompkins saw the oil chiefs as "sadder, thinner and less optimistic...
...York City subway is cold, and spooky with shadows. Water drips from the vaulted ceiling into small pools beside the tracks below. At one end the platform a rusting steel bridge leads to the street elevator. It is past midnight. A well-dressed man walks nervously up and down, a few steps at a time, waiting for a train. He knows he is a target and is plainly scared. The elevator descends. The man sees six teen-age blacks sweeping toward him like a pack of wolves. First they literally sniff him up and down, then they urinate...
...tens of thousands, or even a hundred thousand people show up and they're angry, and scared, and feel used by the government, then the May 6 demo may be looked back on as the beginning of the end of nuclear power in the U.S. That end is already in sight, because no one is planning on building any new reactors. But the reactors now in use continue to turn out in their deadly radiation, and the cancers don't show up until long after the profits do. Besides, nuclear power is a world problem, and the peoples...
...proceed with a policy that does not make clear to the corporations that there are potential consequences to follow upon their failure to respond to earlier demands or positions taken by the University, if, in other words, at the end of our chain of articulated steps, there exists no exit, only a kind of crying in the wind, then we fail in the end, either to communicate our moral stance or to exercise what little power in the most efficacious way that we have in this situation...
...speak. But I very much appreciate the spirit in which the discussion has gone on, and the way in which we have tried to think together about how we will approach a horrible situation, instead of simply castigating one another simply because we take different approaches to a common end. Being six o'clock. I think we should adjoin the meeting, unless there is some urgent business to come before...