Word: nationalizes
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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Even so, Okun believes the program is essential if the nation is to have "insurance against an energy catastrophe. The question now is whether the American people will have enough maturity to act before the crisis hits...
...President Carter's program to conserve energy is to succeed, U.S. suburbanites-the nation's most careless squanderers of energy-will have to change their attitudes substantially, and their life-styles somewhat, too. To learn how one representative American suburb uses energy, and how it has responded to Carter's call for conservation, TIME Correspondent Patricia Delaney went to Hinsdale, Illinois. Then, to see how another affluent suburb takes a different approach to the same problem, TIME Correspondent Barrett Seaman visited Rösrath, outside of Cologne, West Germany. Their reports...
...everyone knew the author, but the phrase was familiar: "the moral equivalent of war." It was quoted without attribution by President Jimmy Carter last week in an attempt to mobilize the nation against the squandering of energy. But the words were first uttered in 1910 by Philosopher William James, who had something else in mind...
...American pragmatist hated war but nonetheless nourished a great admiration for the military virtues: hardihood, collective fervor, discipline. If these could be diverted from the battlefield, he reasoned, the nation could harness the spirit and energy usually evoked only by local conflict or foreign adventure and be the richer for it. He called for, instead of military service, a "conscription of the whole youthful population to form for a certain number of years a part of the army enlisted against Nature...
...carnage of World War I seemed to annihilate such noble proposals. Values reversed themselves: the military virtues, it appeared, could only be found in the military; war seemed the only way to rally the nation...