Word: moods
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...latest of the Roper Reports on the mood of the country confirms the obvious: Americans are currently feeling both put-upon and apprehensive. A majority (56%) are burdened by inflation and high prices to such an extent that they believe that even a $100 addition to their monthly paychecks would be spent to meet current needs. Forty-six percent are soured by the fuel and en ergy crisis. Forty percent are resentful of wrongdoing by elected officials...
...happened. Despite an initial panic and rising inflation, oil imports dropped only slightly, and now that Japan is on the Arabs' list of "friends," the government unofficially predicts that 1974 imports will actually rise 4% or so over 1973. The doomsday atmosphere has changed to a new mood of optimism...
...signal that mood, the government has now begun to ease restrictions on energy use. It decreed an increase in oil supplies doled out to industry. To be sure, buildings still cannot be heated to over 68° F., gasoline stations must shut down on Sundays and holidays, and neon lights are banned after business hours. But those measures, says Toshinobu Wada, an official at the Ministry of International Trade and Industry, remain merely "to foster a psychology of energy conservation...
...inflation are holding the rise in wholesale prices, which jumped 35% last year, to a more modest 14.6%-though that effort is threatened by labor demands for a 30% wage boost. Savings deposits are up and expense-account spending is down-both sure signs of a "back to work" mood...
When the bass and drum strike up every one of Waylon Jennings's songs, there's a plodding anticapatory quality about it, a waiting without suspense. This is a familiar theme in country music, connected to country life--the mood is like sitting on the porch in summer whittling and watching the cars go by. It's hard-driving and strong but with a controlled drawl, so that it sounds redundant at first, until the body of the song starts and Jennings and his harp players weave a bluesy exchange through the sameness. Joining them is a superb pedal steel...