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Dates: during 1970-1979
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LICHTBLAU: Natural gas has a lot of potential at new, higher prices. There is a lot to be found; we have not really looked for it the same way as for oil because earlier there was no market and later prices were set so low that there was no incentive. We still have to sort out nuclear. It is likely that a number of plants now operating will have to be shut down for a period, and new reactors will be delayed...
ADELMAN: If we had not been in such a rush, the reactor accident might have been avoided, but nuclear is now back to the drawing boards. We need less regulation and more development of low-sulfur coal. Solar will grow only slowly, but that is where a lot of R. and D. money ought to be put. Energy R. and D. spending won't help solve anything for ten years, but something may come in big and leave us in a better position at the end of the decade...
...methods that have been used before -price controls, consumer boycotts and increased import quotas-would only hurt now. Reason: today's higher prices are the best way to encourage cattle producers to replenish the herds that they have depleted over the past four years, when beef prices were low...
Lesbians often feel themselves to be the most persecuted minority of all. One reason is economic: working at low-paying jobs, they usually do not have as much money as gay males, who are often successful in the straight world. Nor do homosexual men usually have children to support, as do a fair number of lesbians who have finally admitted their sexual orientation. Many female homosexuals think they have less in common with gay men than with heterosexual feminists, who have now largely accepted them after some early misgivings...
...Homosexuals and heterosexuals they studied-all of them preselected for "sexual efficiency"-have about the same low rate of failure to reach orgasm...