Word: moods
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...Dream. Last week TIME found in a national survey, drivers were doing anything but that. The general mood was to consider the whole energy crisis-and good conservation habits-as a bad dream that was over and done with. New Jersey and Washington, D.C., officially canceled their alternate-day rationing schemes, and other states unofficially stopped enforcing theirs. Sales of big, gas-guzzling cars are picking up. Motels and roadside restaurants are reporting a move back toward normal business. Highways are becoming crowded again, even on Sundays. "We're starting to see tourists again," says Bess Pursell, head...
...written by a novice, Neil Cullinan, a political science professor at Fort Valley State College in Georgia. Cullinan's coup was quickly matched by Washington Post Reporter Laurence Stern and CBS'S Walter Cronkite. All three interviews yielded fascinating material on the fugitive's mood and lifestyle. They also demonstrated that reaching such a quarry can produce more self-serving and evasive responses than fresh information...
...Delphic statement, it is turning out to be almost literally true. The "black rain " is about to fall from a vast array of oil rigs in the North Sea. Not coincidentally, the country is undergoing the first widespread resurgence of nationalism in this century. One indicator of the new mood was the dramatic breakthrough scored in February's British elections by the Scottish National Party, a modest fringe group for most of its 40-year history. Claiming, among other things, that "it's Scotland's oil," the S.N.P. won 22% of the Scottish vote and seven seats...
...Egypt's Anwar Sadat, and wooed the support of workers with promises of tax reforms, better health care and higher pensions. But his uneasy union with the Communists, which assures him 20% of the vote, also tends to alienate middle-class voters who might otherwise be in the mood for a change...
...itself will cure inflation, but in combination they should have a strong, long-term impact. Even then, something more will be needed. Inflation is a matter of psychology as well as Government action or inaction, and runaway price boosts have a devastating tendency to produce a sauve-qui-peut mood in which everyone tries to stay one jump ahead of the crowd. Says Swiss Banker Alfred Schaefer: "A successful fight against inflation implies, first of all, a change of mentality in all layers of the population. It is essential to reaffirm the value of the principle of return...