Word: melle
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...well be that there is just not much oil left to be found in the continental U.S., at least not in amounts large enough to justify a pell-mell drilling rate. No one knows for sure, of course, but experts are beginning to wonder. The U.S. Geological Survey recently cut in half its estimate of recoverable oil left in the U.S., to 82 billion bbl. Oil Expert Walter Levy questions whether it makes much sense for oil companies to continue "spending more and more, and finding less and less." Wildcatters will no doubt continue exploring vigorously, but they have accounted...
...pell-mell push, the house passed five bills by votes of more than 130 to 0, although only about 30 of the 176 members were present. As the roll was called, legislators scampered about the floor to vote for absent colleagues. When even such stratagems failed to reduce the pile of legislation sufficiently, the Democratic leadership combined 168 bills into two packages and forced a vote on each without debate. Most of the legislators had no idea what they were considering, but they whipped the two through...
...main objection, he told a dozen freshmen in the Union, was that the administration's drive for American energy independence is "just going pell-mell forward, without mentioning conservation...
...especially in the "casuals" and "Talk pieces" that appear in the front of the magazine, the writing shows a distinctive humor, low-key and urbane, that seems to float effortlessly above all that is encumbered and earth-bound. "How easy I have found it," Gill writes, "to rush pell-mell through the world, playing the clown when the spirit of darkness has moved me, and colliding with good times at every turn." It's as if he has lived his life in New Yorker style, a life with a few muted sorrows but on the whole transparent and unruffled...
...their pell-mell and sometimes unseemly rush to ensure harmony on campus, many college administrators agreed to institute some form of pass/fail grading. By 1971 an estimated three-quarters of the nation's colleges and universities were offering alternatives to traditional marking systems. Eager to ride the professional bandwagon, a number of high schools and grade schools were quick to follow...