Word: fueled
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...individuals [who] blithely go along wasting fuel," I object to my use of gasoline being termed waste. By whose standard does use become waste...
...Inflation will run at an annual rate of 8% by next December, then slip to 7% by December 1980. A major reason for this slowdown is that the recent rate of price rises is unlikely to continue. In the first quarter alone, fuel jumped at an annual rate of 25%, and home financing, including mortgage rates, taxes and insurance, shot...
...junk." The situation might be called ridiculous if only in light of the universal recognition of the passenger train as the most expedient mode of moving large numbers of people from city to city. In an energy-short era, the railroad, fully exploited, offers the most fuel-efficient means of public transport...
...downsizing." Gromyko improved slightly on that position, offering to settle for plus 5%, minus 20%. Vance replied that the U.S. would hold firm to a lower limit of 5%. At issue was whether the Soviets would be free to proceed with one or more new, smaller, more fuel-efficient, more accurate ICBMs under the guise that they were merely modified versions of old ICBMs. The U.S. felt that a 20% limit on downsizing would constitute an unacceptable loophole in SALT II; it would make a mockery out of the claim that the treaty banned all but one new type...
...once and for all, 5% as the limit on the increase or decrease in the length, diameter, launch weight and throw weight of an existing type of missile (this was a shorter list of parameters than the U.S. had originally sought). Nor could there be a change in the fuel type of an existing rocket, the number of stages, the maximum number of warheads or the minimum weight of individual warheads. These last two provisions were meant to prevent the Soviets from developing an SS-18 with a capacity to launch as many as 40 smaller warheads?four times...