Word: fueled
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...perilous its military situation was. Thanks to a congressional reduction in military aid from a requested $1.6 billion to $700 million, Vietnamese troops in early 1975 were down to 200 M-16 rounds per man and ten 105-mm artillery rounds per month, the Rand report says. Fuel shortages in Saigon forced ambulances to be towed around four-in-a-row by trucks...
...that the Russians have been subversively operating to get rid of the Shah in Iran or that they are presently working to overthrow other regimes along the crescent. But within a decade, according to intelligence reports, the Soviet Union will be running short of the oil it needs to fuel an expanding economy. Thus the region could easily become the fulcrum of world conflict in the 1980s...
Create Hot and Cold Dorms. David Edwards, plant director for Maine's Bowdoin College, has recommended that the deans ask students whether they're normally cold-blooded or hot-blooded. Edwards hopes to cut fuel bills by housing all the students who like it chilly in the same dormitory...
...homeowners have been hard hit by climbing fuel bills, but some more than others. People in the Northeast have suffered worst because cold winters require more heating. Homeowners living in places with moderate climates, such as San Francisco or Atlanta, have escaped a large part of the impact...
...same time, many city apartment dwellers have skirted the effects of rising gasoline prices-the fuel is almost two times costlier now than in 1967-because they depend on buses and subways. Farmers, small-town folks and suburbanites are not so fortunate, since they need automobiles. But farmers have been able to insulate themselves from stunning increases in food costs-up 117% since 1967-by producing much of what they eat. As a result of Medicare and Medicaid, the elderly and the poor have largely escaped the exploding cost of hospitals (medical-care services have risen 122% since...