Word: fueled
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...needs movies on a long-distance passenger train? The odyssey provides enough walk-around human drama to fuel a TV series. (It might be called The Off-Broadway Limited.) A young woman, in tears after midnight, confesses that she is going home to Louisiana after a tragic love affair. A black businessman muses somberly on the humiliations that clouded his childhood. A retired railroad executive recounts the great train trips he has made around the world. An elderly waiter talks of the days when he and the rest of the dining-car crew on some routes had to sleep...
...taxes poured fuel on a fire that was already raging nearly out of control, largely because of the volatile Proposition 13, which goes before California's voters next week. Perhaps the most emotional issue to sweep across the state in a generation, the celebrated proposition has gathered astonishing grass-roots support. It has at least a fifty-fifty chance of becoming law. If it does, property taxes for all Californians will be slashed by 57%, beginning July 1. City, county, town and school administrators figure that they would lose some $7 billion a year. Either they would have...
...providing security at the airport over the long run. A 1,500-man permanent security force is planned, but it will be far from adequate if the current tempo of protest continues. Beyond protecting the 1,360-acre airport itself, authorities have to provide special antisabotage protection for jet fuel and other supplies transported to Narita from the outside. Then there is an expansion plan calling for construction of two runways to supplement the one now in use-requiring the purchase of still more private farm land...
...regulations. But it did not include installation of federally mandated parts, such as emissions-control systems and safety bumpers, on the cars. These costs also become part of the price the consumer must pay, but GM did not give out the figures. In addition, says Chairman Thomas Murphy, the fuel-economy standards coming into effect between now and the early 1980s "could add another $800 or more to the average retail price of our cars...
...century. The error was mine. In fact, on the basis of a comprehensive two-year study performed by Dr. Jhirad and his colleagues, Dr. Jhirad concludes that aggressive implementation of the solar option (encouraged by federal purchasing programs and tax incentives), combined with efficient fossil-fuel use, could result in solar energy providing one-quarter of the nation's energy needs in the year 2000 and all its energy needs by the middle of the next century. A recent report by the Council on Environmental Quality has made similar predictions for the year 2000. Jhirad notes that...