Word: factly
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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Only a recluse could fail to know somebody who uses less ingenuity in living than in worrying and guarding against subtle hazards. Perhaps the surest sign that the admonitory mood is taking a toll is the fact that Americans have begun to write advice columnists about the problems that all the cautions cause. Warnings about cholesterol in eggs, nitrate in bacon, caffeine in coffee (and, a while back, risky chemicals in even the decaffeinated variety) have sapped the fun out of eating breakfast for some people, it seems. Wrote one such: "I'd try bread and water...
...Iran shortfall actually will not register until January, and while it may cause a gasoline shortage early next year, Washington describes heating-oil reserves as being above 1978 levels and higher than the "projected normal stock range." The fact is that less heating oil has been ordered by customers so far this year than during the same period in 1978. A relatively warm November has helped, but the Department of Energy gives much of the credit for the shrinkage in demand to high prices that in turn have led to greater conservation efforts. Citizens are discovering that plugging holes...
...fact, any large building erected during the late 1950s or '60s is likely to be an oil-thirsty white elephant, particularly the glass-box skyscrapers that sprouted in New York and other big cities. "Cheap oil made us very lazy," admits the illustrious Philip Johnson, 73, who with the equally illustrious Mies van der Rohe designed Manhattan's Seagram Building. Conceived by their creators as formal abstractions, such austere structures bore out the "less is more" precept in an unintended way: they used far more heating and cooling energy than the buildings they replaced. Now owners are scrambling to make...
Most Americans support President Carter's policy that Iran will suffer "grave consequences" if the hostages are harmed. But, psychologically, the damage for some may already be done. Says Dr. Bert Brown, former director of the National Institute of Mental Health: "The fact is, the hostages have already been harmed -some of them for life...
...revenue surge enraged the Saudis; Oil Minister Ahmed Zaki Yamani argues that Aramco's parents have been grossly profiteering from Saudi "generosity," suggesting that last week's Saudi price rise of $6 per bbl. was in part at least to punish them. In fact, Aramco's shareholders have been selling their oil products in the U.S. for prices just a bit below their competitors'. If the discounts had been any bigger, long lines would have formed at Exxon, Mobil and Texaco gasoline stations, as well as at those of Chevron, the retailing outlet for Socal...