Word: nationalizes
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...help organize the debates. Associate Editor David Tinnin, who regularly follows the Energy beat, talked extensively with participants at the conference, then returned to New York City to write about the meeting. His story accompanies this week's report on the President's energy program in the Nation section's assessment of Carter's first three months in the White House...
...champion of human rights around the world, and used foreign aid as a lever to pry loose such rights, 3) ignored diplomatic niceties in suggesting concessions that various factions must make in seeking peace in the Middle East, 4) taken on the politically dangerous task of asking the nation to accept an energy-conservation plan that will require sacrifices by millions...
...that measured, dispassionate manner, James R. Schlesinger, who is President Carter's Mr. Energy, spelled out the Administration's approach to the nation's looming energy crisis. He was speaking to members of Time Inc.'s third energy conference. The timing could hardly have been more propitious. Only two weeks before President Carter's self-imposed deadline for the announcement of a comprehensive energy program, 88 leaders from the Government and virtually every energy industry and interest group gathered in Williamsburg, Va. The speeches and discussions provided a unique preview of the debate that Carter...
...Government's approach to energy problems has been largely characterized by indifference, indecision and delay," complained Donald L. Bower, president of Chevron U.S.A. But, he added, "there are measures our nation can undertake to slow and later reverse its increasing dependency on foreign energy." He stressed the need for additional discoveries and the widespread application of methods, such as pumping solvent chemicals into depleted wells, to get more oil out of older fields. "By 1985 more than 40% of total domestic production must come from new discoveries or enhanced recovery projects." Bower was pessimistic about the outlook for domestic...
...because the U.S. uses so much energy, it can also save a lot. But conservation is often very expensive, especially when large plants must be converted to different fuels or "retrofitted" with more efficient equipment. There also are limits beyond which conservation would become a debilitating brake on the nation's economic activity...