Word: nationalized
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...just deciding how to present it. Carter's initial idea was to give a television address along the lines of the "moral equivalent of war" speech he made two years ago this month. But all that most Americans now remember of that occasion is that he called the nation to the energy barricades, then shrank from leading the fight. This time aides were urging him to choose a more subdued format. No matter where he speaks, Carter's audience will include not just the American people but the OPEC cartel. Until he presents an energy plan that sharply...
...made is abundant. The blend is hailed by its champions as a wonder that yields about the same mileage as unleaded gasoline and offers an ever renewable source of energy. Moreover, gasohol could, if it replaced gasoline as a standard fuel, cut perhaps as much as 10% from the nation's oil-import bill, which last year reached a staggering $40 billion. Now the fuel has won an endorsement from Jimmy Carter...
...staunchest backers of gasohol are farmers. If gasohol were to become a standard motor fuel, the nation's production of grain-corn, barley, oats and the like -would have to be increased by at least 50%. But, as gasohol advocates point out, the Government now encourages farmers to hold down their grain crops, so expanding production would not be too difficult. Moreover, alcohol can be produced from a variety of infinitely renewable sources. Though U.S. distillers now use mainly corn as their alcohol base, experts assert that just about any substance with a high starch or sugar content could...
...Warren found that it contained vital concepts restricted under the Atomic Energy Act of 1954. (Significantly, the Government could invoke no such statutory authority when it tried unsuccessfully to block publication of the Pentagon papers in 1971.) "The article could possibly provide sufficient information to allow a medium-sized nation to move faster in developing a hydrogen weapon," he concluded...
...eternally looking for somebody who supposedly looks like a President. Once again, the presidential field is prematurely swarming with contenders and pretenders, each selling a face and figure as heaven-sent for White House display. But how is one to judge? If the nation had a vivid idea of what the presidential look should be, political parties and voters alike would be saved considerable uncertainty...