Word: everly
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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Most of these developments eventually would have occurred even if Carter had not introduced his new energy package. But his complex and costly program, provided it is ever enacted by Congress, will accelerate the trends by stimulating investment and spurring technological breakthroughs. Says Economist Arthur Okun: "If there is an Edwin [Polaroid] Land or a Hewlett or a Packard in the country with a bright idea for energy production, a big carrot is being held...
More than building the first atomic bomb, more even than putting the first men on the moon, the creation from scratch of an entirely new industry to produce synthetic fuels would be the most ambitious technical venture that the U.S. has ever undertaken. From outright subsidies to price guarantees, the Government would offer many incentives for private firms to produce oil-like liquids and natural gas from the nation's plentiful coal, shale rock and biomass.* Congressmen are infatuated with the idea of synthetic-fuel production. Cracks Representative Clarence Brown of Ohio: "Every committee in Congress has a synfuel...
...controls, price predictions for building synfuel plants have been rising steadily. The new range is from $1 billion to $3 billion for an oil shale or coal liquefaction plant that would produce 50,000 to 100,000 bbl. a day. A coal gasification plant would run some $1.5 billion. Ever climbing costs have kept estimated prices of producing synfuels persistently dancing ahead of world crude prices. In 1973, when oil was $3.50 a bbl., oil from shale was figured at $4.50. Just before OPEC'S latest price rise, when crude was selling at $17 a bbl., shale...
...Gary's teachers, see things differently. Says his father: "If he's slow in learning, then I think you should hold him back. Even my little ones-if I don't discipline them early, then I'm going to have problems later. Have they ever asked themselves how a teacher could give a student a passing grade for each of the years he went to school, and then he gets to the eleventh grade and they tell him he's functionally illiterate because he can't pass this test...
...shoes, a stoneware jug, or a bunch of asparagus tied in blue paper set down with an odd, veiled discomposure. The size of the painting laconically follows the size of its subject. Isolated and closely scrutinized, these motifs give Arikha's canvases a likeness (insofar as painting can ever resemble writing) to the elliptical sentences of his friend Samuel Beckett, imbued with a hard-won sense of the difficulty of any kind of description...