Word: helpful
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...relieve the problem. By relaxing some state environmental regulations that are stricter than federal standards, such as on the lead content of gasoline, and strictly enforcing the 55 m.p.h. speed limit, California could save an estimated 55,000 bbl. of gasoline per day. That would certainly help bridge the gap between supply and demand: the state's gasoline supplies in May probably will fall about 70,000 bbl. per day below those of a year earlier. At Carter's side, Energy Secretary James Schlesinger declared: "I think it would be safe to say that we hope the worst...
There was no undoing the confusion, however. Oregon Governor Victor Atiyeh complained that Carter's decision to help California was a "slap in the face" to other Governors who have been urging less driving in order to conserve gasoline. Illinois Governor James Thompson, for example, requested motorists to drive no faster than 50 m.p.h. New York Governor Hugh Carey asked motorists to cut their driving this month by 100 miles, which would enable them to save seven gallons of gasoline each. The New England Council, a Boston-based booster group, has proposed that everyone abstain from driving...
Then, in 1925, he was approached by five Pullman porters who asked him to help organize their fledgling union. Randolph, whose earlier attempts to organize workingmen had largely failed, at first said no. He was not even a member of that fraternity that shined the shoes and cleaned the cuspidors of traveling America. But he soon saw his mission. The outraged Pullman Co. tried to crush the movement; even Negro preachers and newspapers fulminated against the union. But for ten trying years, Randolph exhorted porters across the country. Finally, Pullman capitulated in 1937 and signed its first contract with...
...being held in a goat-killing pen by the Indians, who were trying to figure out from whom they could demand a ransom for his release. Before leaving Colombia, Rogers received a scrawled message from McLemore: "I am safe and would like to turn myself in but I need help too. Let me know what to do. Roy McLemore...
...outsider who seemed to understand this best was Israeli Premier Menachem Begin. Last week he pointedly expressed his own concern for Sadat's "isolation" and said, "We should like to help President Sadat as much as we can." That offer was more striking in light of Begin's own peace-related problems: a major political row between his Likud coalition government and the Labor opposition and an angry split in his own Cabinet...