Word: gradual
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...drilling boom in the U.S. is yet another demonstration of an old economic law: when prices rise, producers will attempt to increase their output. In 1978 Congress began phasing out price controls on natural gas, and in 1979 the Government started a gradual decontrol of crude-oil prices. The cost of oil and gas immediately increased, but the initial production results are impressive. U.S. oil output will rise by 2% this year, from 8.5 million bbl. per day to 8.7 million bbl.-marking only the third increase in a decade. The additions to natural-gas reserves grew by 35% last...
When Jimmy Carter first trumpeted his registration plan last winter, he warned of an increasingly aggressive Soviet war machine and a disorganized all-volunteer American counterpart, one incapable of responding efficiently to the Communist threat. Despite this frightening description and the public's gradual shift toward a more bellicose outlook as problems in the Near East continued to smolder, no one was certain that America's youth would cooperate with Carter. The SSS announced its version of the outcome last week: more than 93 per cent of the nearly four million eligible men had registered, and more were expected...
...remarkable phenomenon: what at the moment seems to be nothing more than the random rise and fall of men and ideas, false starts and sudden brainstorms, erratic bursts of passion and apathy, brief setbacks and partial victories, is later discovered to be-in the light of America's gradual unveiling as the New Athens, New Rome and New Jerusalem all in one -an inevitable sequence of interlocking events, a divine code...
...outbreak came after increasing protest and turmoil in recent months. The government's promised reforms, ranging from a gradual phasing out of the hated passbook system to a plan for enabling blacks to buy their own homes, have either not materialized or largely failed. Organizers of the African National Congress, the outlawed black political movement, operate with increasing ease. Meanwhile, the colored population of 3 million, which once supported the country's 4.3 million whites in perpetuating the status quo, has become politicized and appears increasingly disposed to make common cause with the 20 million blacks...
...serving in the military. I think that the middle class and upper middle class of America also have a duty to defend this country. When you depend more and more on lower economic groups to enlist in the services, you are setting the stage for a gradual deterioration of patriotism...