Word: growths
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...that had been represented for twelve years by Brock Adams, Carter's Secretary of Transportation. Among its 243,000 voters are heavy concentrations of minorities and blue collar workers. Though a staunch conservative, Cunningham made unemployment his top issue. He labeled his opponent an "environmental extremist" whose no-growth policies would cost the state jobs. He argued that, by proposing to cut defense spending, Durning would eliminate still more employment...
James M. Redwine '77, House Committee Chairman, said yesterday the students in the House will quickly approve the proposal. The only problem he forsees is complaints from disgruntled alumnae, but he said choosing a name of someone who was instrumental in Radcliffe's growth for the House could overcome the objections...
True, man has ridden horse for several millenia, and despite his continual growth through medical advancements, has never become too large. The horse has grown with him. But does capability necessitate responsibility? Just because the horse can carry man, that does not mean the jockey has to ride...
...Energy Strategies, a group organized by MIT Professor Carroll Wilson. He assembled 35 industrial, government and academic experts from twelve oil-importing nations and three exporters: Iran, Mexico and Venezuela. They plotted likely oil demand and supply under a wide range of assumptions: high and low rates of economic growth, "vigorous" and "restrained" government conservation policies, and the effects of oil-price rises of different amounts...
...report is open to objection. Its demand estimates assume a free world economic growth averaging 4.4% a year, which some experts consider high. It also assumes that no more than 20 billion bbl. per year-the equivalent of two Alaska North Slopes-can be added to the world's proven oil reserves. Some other studies have suggested that the amount of oil waiting to be found is much higher. Wilson says that the report was intended less as prophecy than as a call to action. It advocates unprecedented international cooperation in devising new technologies, sharing existing resources and enforcing...