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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...demand for oil increasingly outstripped new sources of supply in recent years, an energy crisis crept up on the world with fateful inevitability. Yet, despite spreading signs of scarcity, most government leaders in the U.S., Europe and Japan paid little heed to calls from oilmen for urgent measures to expand energy resources and curb waste. Instead, they chose to believe that there was time to formulate some painless strategy to avert a genuine global emergency...
...into the race in the first place? Theories of technological push and the need of capitalists to expand domestic markets suffice, but at this point of crisis, the theories and the questions behind them seem almost superfluous. Like the Three Stooges or Abbot and Costello often did on those shows we used to watch everyday after elementary school, America has unwittingly painted itself into a corner--into an insane and unpleasant style of life--and the point now is to get out, even if it means getting our shoes dirty and messing up the floor a little...
...time of Nixon's intercession, the Justice Department was determined to carry an appeal to the U.S. Supreme Court in an attempt to establish the principle that business competition can be unlawfully hindered by the growth of conglomerates, which expand by acquiring unrelated businesses, as much as by corporate growth in a single industry. The test suit was being pushed by Richard McLaren, chief of the Justice Department's antitrust division and now a federal judge. It had the support of then Deputy Attorney General Richard Kleindienst and Solicitor General Erwin Griswold. (Attorney General John Mitchell had withdrawn...
Rampaging floods in India and Pakistan. A devastating drought in Africa. The disappearance of fish off the coast of Peru. These recent, widely reported phenomena all have something in common. Though they were triggered by nature, their magnitude was increased disastrously by man's trying to expand his food production without considering the ecological side effects...
Reichauer said Wednesday that he was "terribly pleased" by Toyota's gift. He added that research at the institute, the purpose of which is to coordinate and expand Harvard's Japanese studies program, is scheduled to begin next year...