Word: endless
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...Bower sees it, the biggest roadblock to increasing production is Government price-control policy that "discourages the formation of the capital necessary to expand supplies, inhibits sensible planning and encourages wasteful consumption." Roadblock No. 2: Endless delays in the leasing of federal oil land, notably on the outer continental shelf, less than 5% of which has been let to oil explorers. Roadblock No. 3: The day-today uncertainty of Government regulation. State and federal rules are likely to change as often as every six months, making it virtually impossible to plan for long-term capital investments. Roadblock No. 4: Congressional...
...conceit flow-or, more precisely, meander-all jokes and situations. "Our premise is simple," explains Lear. "God created Eve first, took out her rib and gave her a companion so she wouldn't be lonely. This was Adam. I think the audience will be fascinated to watch the endless role playing and, more important, to discern the similarities in the needs, hopes and fears shared by all human beings, regardless of gender...
...bright, pleasant White House suite only a 30-second walk from the Oval Office. There he is surrounded by charts showing excessive U.S. use of energy (Americans burn approximately twice as much fuel per person as West Germans, who have roughly comparable living standards), reports and endless position papers from his staff. The first thing he did when he moved in was to recruit a dozen eager, freewheeling young people, who are unintimidated by their awesome job or their boss, whom they call simply Jim. Schlesinger hired them in his typically low-key way. Often it was just a telephone...
...Sayer: Endless Flight (Warner Bros.). For years, Sayer's own sweet soaring tenor (reminiscent of Elton John's) was obscured as he comported himself onstage in thick white makeup and a clown suit. Now Sayer has shucked his Petrushka image. Instead he diverts his energy into making rock music of a high order. A gifted songwriter, he has come up with an album of infectious melodies in a sophisticated rhythm-and-blues vein. In addition to the breakaway single You Make Me Feel Like Dancing, he has a winner in the ballad When I Need...
There is no message in this elegy from a Hollywood graveyard. The Haywards were unusual and interesting only in their good fortune, not their bad. Tolstoy was wrong: it is unhappy families that are all the same. Happiness is unique, the product of endless labor, never-ending struggle. It demanded an effort the Haywards were not willing to make...