Word: fueled
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...assistant attorney general have twisted the court system to make life difficult for us. Our central concern, however, continues to be nuclear power. The insanity of a national energy economy based on an incredibly toxic carcinogen, plutonium; the public's blindness to the incredible costs of the nuclear fuel cycle, from uranium mining to fuel fabrication to power reactors to reprocessing plants to waste storage; the deliberate suppression of alternate energy sources like wind and solar; a technology that even government sources admit is capable of accidents killing up to 45,000 people--these are our concerns. These...
...morning the subject was the nomadic life of Mongolia--therefore endless slides of yaks. yurts, camels, and the like; also, toward the beginning, a picture of multiple mounds of dried sheep dung which, Fairbank explained, the Mongols used for fuel. Imagine my consternation when, several slides later, there appeared on the screen a precise duplicate of the sheepdung vista. Fairbank once again patiently explained the significance of the mounds, but added to the audience of 300, "I am frankly at a loss as to how to account for Mr. Thomson's infatuation with sheep dung...
...Says a top presidential adviser: "The President is acutely conscious that there are plenty of uncertainties and even worries about him in Europe. I think he will impress them as a pragmatist, not a moralist, and as a guy who's got a firm grip on the problems." Fuel Sales. Carter arrives bolstered by firm public support at home. A New York Times/CBS News survey last week showed that he had a 64% favorable rating after announcing his energy program. That was a drop of eight points from a Gallup poll earlier in April, but not the 15 points...
...Europe, officials, who had long urged the U.S. to cut back its prodigal use of fuel, were much relieved. Le Monde estimated that by increasing coal production and reducing consumption, the U.S. could realize 55% of the possible energy savings for the entire industrialized world. Concluded the Paris newspaper: "These nations can therefore say, 'At last!' " A senior aide to British Energy Secretary Anthony Wedgwood Benn commented, "It's an act of considerable courage for the leader of the largest energy user in the world to set out policies for conservation on such a scale...
...jump. American Airlines turned a $ 1.4 million profit for the quarter, v. an $8.8 million loss for the same period last year. It was the line's best first quarter in nine years, and it mirrored the recovery of the U.S. airline industry generally as higher fares, stable fuel prices and greater numbers of passengers boosted revenues and earnings...