Word: endless
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...Okay." So the furriers take the aster-cosmonauts on a long journey, through many of Mars's famed canals, until they arrive at a huge palace. They enter through a gate and pass through a seemingly endless succession of rooms, each grander and more beautiful than the last. Finally they enter the last room, the grandest of all--it's about 50 yards long, with jewel-encrusted walls and solid gold floors. At the end of the room, sits another hairy little man with a large hypodermic needle attached to the top of his head...
While efforts to develop a U.S. energy policy have been stymied by endless wrangling within Congress and between the legislators and the White House, the nation's energy situation has deteriorated. Domestic production of oil has declined steadily during the past year, and a relaxation of public conservation measures and the nation's quickening economic pace have caused U.S. oil imports to return to pre-Arab embargo levels. Indeed, the U.S. has become more dependent than ever...
...mute. Wyoming swells to dwarf the trucks hard-panting up her hills. In rust hues the sky descended upon her forlorn tracts, swallowing puny hamlets: a cafe, a grocery store, a gas station, a truckstop, a few shacks, 200 people--all in white; and blistering vacant roads. Over the endless, straight, dust-heaped earth, the van torches at 95 mph, slowing up every 15 minutes or so for an oncoming car. At 9:30 p.m. we catch the night at Lander and sleep...
...concerts to encourage them. He has staged benefit concerts for Watford in order to buy the team the new players it needs. A year ago, he gained something like 40 Ibs. and what he claims was an incipient case of alcoholism helping team members drown their sorrows after an endless string of defeats...
Economic Czar. Says Fukuda: "The economy has suffered deep wounds that will take at least three years to cure." Even after that, in his mind, going back to the old era of hell-for-leather growth would only start "an endless cycle of inflation and deflation." His long-run goal is for the Japanese economy to expand at about a 5% annual rate-only half the average post-World War II pace...