Word: hardships
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Until there is a settlement, not much can be done to relieve the hardship. There is no easy way of distributing power from the states that have it in sufficient quantity to those that do not. The U.S. lacks a heavy-volume interconnection of grids to link utilities across the nation. Coal can be shipped by rail or truck, but not in adequate amounts...
...bowling alley, a trout stream, skeet-shooting and archery range, movie facilities, a wide selection of music (Richard Nixon used to stand in front of the stereo speakers and "guest conduct" his favorite symphonies fortissimo). Comments former Nixon Counsel John Dean: "It has a rustic feel but no rustic hardship. If Baked Alaska is what you want, Baked Alaska is what...
...tyrannized blacks for centuries or profited from the tyranny. They didn't climb to wealth on the backs of exploited black workers, they didn't rise by making others sink. They arrived on American shores long after the blacks and the first whites did, and they faced discrimination and hardship of their own, albeit much less severe than that faced by blacks. And they cannot understand why they should have to pay for the sins of the people who oppressed them too. Their ethos--that success should be the reward of merit alone, an ethos that allowed them to compete...
...economic boycott of South Africa will entail undoubted hardship for Africans...But if it is a method which shortens the day of blood, the suffering to us will be a price we are willing to pay. In any case, we suffer already, our children are often undernourished, and on a small scale (so far) we die at the whim of a policeman...
Neither have the nation's utilities and industries. They have taken a variety of steps to avoid the fuel shortages, plant closings and transportation tie-ups that made the bitterly cold winter of 1976-77 a national hardship to remember-and to learn from. Utilities have increased their storage capacity for natural gas: the South Jersey Gas Co., for example, this summer added 1.2 billion cu. ft., an increase of 30%. New York's Consolidated Edison Co. has arranged to buy synthetic gas as a backup in case pipeline deliveries of natural gas from Texas prove insufficient. Many...