Word: facings
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...whose drafty 26th-floor office commands a splendid view of northern Manhattan and a stretch of the Hudson, sat glaring at her thermometer last week. The reading was 62°, "and that doesn't allow for wind chill." She contemplates rising to greet a visitor and falling flat on her face because she has forgotten to step out of her snuggle sack...
...similar houses, has 95 more in the planning and construction stages, and guarantees that if his heating ideas do not work satisfactorily, he will install a conventional furnace. Across the country, some 200 houses have been built incorpo- rating the heat-saving features ?heavy insulation and windows that face south?of the Illnois LoCal house, designed in the mid-'70s by University of Illinois ar chitects and engineers...
...long term, it is vital to move forward rapidly to develop every alternative energy source, from coal and shale to wind, waves and the sun. Meanwhile, conservation of existing supplies is indispensable, and politicians would do well to face the issue. Concludes Milton Lipton, president of the leading petroleum advisory firm of Walter J. Levy Consultants: "Despite the inevitable inequities of either steep taxes or rationing, there comes a time when you have to say, 'Damn the torpedoes and full speed ahead.' I cannot think of a better time to ask the American people to accept either...
Meaden wrote two Mod anthems, Zoot Suit and I'm the Face, for the group's first single, which was no particular success. Shortly after, the band switched managers, changed its name to The Who, and Townshend started writing his own tunes, widening the focus past Mod to take in all the audience. I Can't Explain, My Generation, The Kids Are Alright were as fresh and nervy as battle reports from the front lines where youth was locked in a tag-team match with the forces of the Establishment...
...What we are not going to do is play this game with all the cards face up on the deck." (He did not say whether the cards might be face up on the table...