Word: givens
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...reduced electricity consumption to a minimum, there is always an other watt or two that can be saved. That is the theory behind electricity monitors, which use microchip technology and digital display to calculate the dollars-and-cents value of the electricity being used in a house at any given moment. The idea is that once a homeowner sees what he is actually spending for electricity, he will become far more conscientious about turning off lights and, in the case of electric heat, lowering the thermostat. According to tests by the University of Colorado, monitors can bring down electricity consumption...
...offshore areas. The Interior Department recently stepped up its schedule of lease sales over the next five years, from 26 to 30, but that will do nothing in the near future to halt the gradual decline in U.S. oil production that began in 1971. Oil executives say that given the time it takes to develop offshore fields-the usual lag between discovery and full production is seven to ten years -leasing should be expanded sharply. After all, they point out, while other countries have leased as much as 35% of their coastal waters for exploration, the U.S. has opened...
...appearing. Tourists wearing yarmulkes are visiting the pyramids, new high-rises spike the Cairo sky line, and signs hawking familiar brand names reflect increased Western business investment. The reopened Suez Canal is earning rich transit fees, and Egyptian engineers have taken over Alma, the largest of the oilfields being given up by the Israelis in the course of their three-year withdrawal from the Sinai...
...evidence: "God exists because if you look in the Oxford English Dictionary under the letter G, you will eventually find the word God." The prize for Hindu chutzpah, however, goes to the master who asked an ambassador's wife about the pain in her leg. "It has never given any pain," replied the woman. The unflustered guru's response: "Leg will be better...
...only 201 pages, Mehta embraces an enormous variety of life and death. Her style is light without being flip; her skepticism never descends to cynicism. Given her subject this is a miracle of rational ism and taste...