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Dates: during 1970-1979
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Residential consumers are not directly involved, since few have experienced actual supply interruptions to their homes. Only a handful have felt the need to switch away from gas. Nonetheless, state-imposed bans on making gas available in new construction have held down the number of residential users, and that is something that the Energy Department would also like changed. So confident has the department become about the availability of domestic gas that last week it rejected import applications for some 2 billion cu. ft. of liquefied natural gas a day from Algeria...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Business: Natural Gas: Sudden Glut | 1/8/1979 | See Source »

SIDE 2 opens with an amusingly reggae-fied version of King Floyd's "Groove Me." Belushi does not do the most convincing Jamaican imitation in the world--he almost sounds Irish in some places--but the song succeeds nonetheless. "I Don't Know," which follows, is very funny and includes some extremely suggestive lines from Belushi ("Baby, you know when you bend over I see every bit of Christmas, and when you bend back I'm looking right into the new year."). On "Soul Man" Cropper delivers the same great riff he's been playing for years, and fellow...

Author: By Marc E. Raven, | Title: The Blues for Sure | 1/4/1979 | See Source »

...Nonetheless, China has felt the hunger to modernize before. Near the end of the Ch'ing dynasty in 1898, under the Emperor Kuang Hsu, the Chinese tried to imitate the Japanese Emperor Meiji's transformation of Japan, from feudalism in the last half of the 19th century. In the early days of Sun Yat-sen's Republican China, an effort to streamline the society with foreign help ended in a bitter failure that eventually turned China toward puritanical socialism. The Chinese, wrote Historian C.P. FitzGerald, "became disillusioned with the false gods of the West They turned restlessly to some other...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Man Of The Year: Visionary of a New China | 1/1/1979 | See Source »

...land area, a country 76,400 sq. mi. larger than the U.S. Although no accurate census has been taken in 25 years, demographers think that sometime around the middle of 1978 the total population surpassed 1 billion. Approximately 85% of these people live in rural areas. Nonetheless, China still has 13 of the 50 most populous cities in the world. Metropolitan Shanghai, with an estimated 12 million inhabitants, has about half a million more people than Tokyo...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Man Of The Year: Beyond Confucius and Kung Fu | 1/1/1979 | See Source »

...Nonetheless, the speed with which the Administration accepted the agreement contributed to doubts, even among supporters of normalization, about whether the U.S. got the best of the bargain. Said Arkansas Senator Dale Bumpers, fresh from spending two weeks in mainland China: "It made me wonder how much the President left on the negotiating table." Probably nothing, in the view of several Asian scholars. "We could have held out," said Harvard's Benjamin Schwartz, "but I doubt that China would ever openly say that it was going to assure the security of Taiwan...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Man Of The Year: Squall over Carter's Move | 1/1/1979 | See Source »

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