Word: occured
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...that must begin with the old question: Will there be "energy shortage in the future? The answer: Only if we let it occur. There may be more shortages of natural gas, but they would be the consequence of inadequate price rather than nonexistent supply. There could well be a severe shortage of oil, but the scarcity would be less of physical quantity than of imaginative ways of bringing crude to market at an acceptable cost...
...then against the U.S., Vietnam's entire landscape and culture must be reconstructed. Much of the land is still pock-marked by open craters, created by bombs dropped from U.S. planes; other areas on which American planes dropped defoliants will remain barren into the next century. Casualties still occur when unexploded mines in the fields kill unsuspecting farmers. The population of South Vietnam is still dislocated, as a result of the U.S. policy of forcing urbanization through bombing the countryside. The people and land of Vietnam still bear the deep wounds of a long and brutal assault...
Collier said yesterday the study shows that if Congress implements the retirement law within the next several years, the "first line impact"--the period during which practically no faculty members currently nearing 65 years of age will retire--will occur when current projections show the academic job crunch will be worst...
...ever sold. Eckstein's econometric models, based on thousands of mathematical equations, produce not only forecasts of growth, inflation, interest rates and the like, but also thousands of micro forecasts of specific industries and products. The predictions change as new indicators are reported or major political developments occur. For example, 72 hours after the Arab oil embargo struck in 1973, Data Resources forecast just how much insurance companies' profits would surge because driving-and accidents -would decline...
...magazine in a barbershop. Employees at Chicago headquarters are now smarting from still another round of corporate hutch cleaning: the abrupt firing of 70 administrative and editorial workers, including five of the 30 vice presidents. President Derick Daniels circulated a written assurance that "no further planned mass reductions" would occur; understandably, that did not solace the survivors. He called the purge part of a "broad program to reduce administrative overhead and reallocate resources." Added Founder-Chairman Hugh Hefner, 51: "What you are seeing is the final stage of a massive re-evaluation and reorganization...