Word: equalization
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...does not obscure the fact that "over 2 million wells have been drilled in the United States--four times as many as in all the rest of the noncommunist world combined." Shale oil would cost far more than conventional oil and takes too long to develop--"a production level equal to about half of one percent of U.S. oil consumption--100,000 barrels a day--would require a billion dollars and a decade"--as well as using enormous quantities of water, which would incite the opposition of farmers and ranchers. On divestiture, Stobaugh writes...
...consumer nation on earth. And in the past, as you know, the producers have controlled our political system. In the past two years, there has been a growing division in our society about oil because the consumer voice has become stronger and stronger, and now they're about equal, I think...
...chairman of the National Black-Hispanic Democratic coalition; John Lyons, president of the iron workers union; David Mahoney, board chairman of Norton Simoni Inc.; Labor Secretary Ray Marshall; Lloyd McBride, president of the steelworkers union; Ruben Mettler, board chairman of TRW, Inc.; Eleanor Holmes Norton, chairman of the Equal Employment Opportunity Commission; Jerry Wurf, president of the state, county and municipal employees union...
Brezhnev read a prepared statement, describing the process of negotiating SALT II. He said that Soviet and American negotiators had achieved an "equal and balanced" agreement in which the Soviets had made concessions. He emphasized that the Soviets and Americans had negotiated the treaty thoroughly-"every word, every phrase, hundreds of times...
With the decline of the manned program came an equal lack of enthusiasm for automated missions to explore the planets. In 1972, with help from the White House, Congress eliminated the "Grand Tour" project, which would have taken advantage of a rare (once every 180 years) planetary alignment to survey the entire outer solar system. Those missions that were approved often did not receive funding for complete analysis of the return data. Others--to map the moon and check it for metal deposits, to research solar phenomena, to rendezvous with Halley's Comet--never got past appropriations subcommittees...