Word: minding
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...shortage is that the other members of OPEC have never increased production enough to make up for the curtailment of supplies from Iran. The situation raises two questions: 1) Which products should be rushed out? The Department of Energy has never seemed able to make up its mind whether to urge maximum output of gasoline or of distillates (heating oil and diesel fuel), though last week Schlesinger came down firmly on the side of distillates. 2) How fast should refineries run down their stocks of crude oil in order to supply gasoline, heating oil and other end-products right...
...does call for $646 million to be spent on research in fiscal 1980. The program would be funded in part by revenues from the windfall tax on oil company profits from price deregulation. Said Energy Secretary James Schlesinger: "The program is designed to establish a habit of mind that looks at solar as a possibility and not as a novelty." Added White House Domestic Affairs Adviser Stuart Eizenstat: "Solar is a here-and-now technology...
...taking a firm stand, the reluctant host governments appear to have two purposes in mind: to try to reduce the flow of refugees at the source, and to get some quick response from the West. In the past four years, 540,000 Indochinese refugees have been relocated. The U.S. has taken 210,000, and 230,000 have reportedly been admitted to China. Most of the remaining 100,000 have gone to France, Australia, Canada and West Germany...
...eats at the dining halls. They're nice places to visit, but you wouldn't want to eat there. As you wander the byways of this college town, peering into restaurant windows and pondering where to get some real food and drink, keep in mind that you are not the first-and probably the least eminent-visitor...
Pusey Library, connected underground to Widener and Lamont, keeps hours many bankers would envy, but if you don't mind studying on sunny afternoons, it is a workaholic's paradise. Even whispers echo loudly there, where the most jarring noise you may hear all day may be a soft footstep on the carpet. And it's beautifully air-conditioned...