Word: fostering
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...also rather indirect, at least in the sense that the giant gas producers, which are also the big oil producers -Exxon, Texaco, Standard Oil of Indiana, Mobil and Gulf-struck an above-the-battle pose and rarely got down into the pit themselves. Said David Foster, executive vice president of the Natural Gas Supply Committee, the producer-sponsored lobby that operates on an annual budget of $500,000 to $750,000: "To attempt to lobby this issue on the concerns of the producers of natural gas is an impossibility. When it's your customers who are saying they...
...Preparations began just after the House turned down deregulation and passed the Carter energy bill before the summer recess. Recalled Carl Suchocki of the Natural Gas Supply Committee: "Word went out: we have to get out to the grass roots, and we have one month to do it." Added Foster: "Few of our people went to the beach in August. They stayed at their desks through the smog and the heat...
...urged officials to differentiate "between a college prank ... and a serious intent to deceive, which compromises honor." For example, the study noted the "classic dilemma [of] whether placing unauthorized articles in a laundry bag is an honor violation." As further morale boosters, the generals urged the Point to foster a sense of humor among cadets-and produce a winning football team...
...When I telephoned to check about a vacant apartment in another neighborhood, the landlord hung up on me as soon as he heard that I was Turkish and had three children." The grim living conditions in the ghettos foster not only broken homes but also a climate of violence-murders, knifings and muggings...
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