Word: less
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...House Banking Committee has already approved a less ambitious partnership plan of its own. Its bill, an amendment to the Defense Production Act of 1950, would permit the Government to become the buyer of last resort for up to 500,000 bbl. daily of oil from coal, shale and other alternative sources. That would amount to about 8% of current U.S. imports. For now, the synthetic fuel is too expensive to compete with OPEC crude, but the Government's guaranteed market for the product would encourage companies to invest and get the new industry off the ground...
Metal halide technology allows more energy to be transformed into light rather than given off as heat, and thus less electrical current is required...
...decided to tie the knot during the Kinetic Sculpture Race, a Ferndale, Calif., festivity that draws some 10,000 spectators. Bailey's entry: a carousel-shaped contraption covered with pink, blue and white tissue-paper flowers. Powered by four children walking around the platform, the float broke down less than a block from the starting line. Though Bailey, Leasure and the bridesmaids ended up pushing their contrivance along the 200yd. course, they did get to the finish line- in time for the wedding ceremony...
...painter ever traveled less in search of nourishment. Apart from trips to Versailles, Chardin may not have left Paris once in all his years. He was a completely metropolitan man, a fact that seems oddly at variance with his paintings, since, as Pierre Rosenberg remarks, "one would like to imagine Chardin a solitary individual, a provincial...
...said: "There's got to be a time when the 90 ft. to first base looks more like 110 ft. When that happens, I'll be the first to recognize it." For all his talk of quitting, first base still looks only 90 ft. away-and sometimes less. Louis Brock and the St. Louis Cardinals are off and running...