Word: pared
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...nations carry out their oil cutbacks, the U.S. could wind up 2,000,000 bbl. short of the 17 million bbl. that it consumes each day. Energy experts in government, business and academe have been pumping out suggestions to help consumers conserve fuel. For example, one immediate way to pare energy demand is to continue Daylight Saving Time right through winter, thus chopping by an hour the heavy night-time use of electricity. Some other potential conservation measures...
...like electric toothbrushes and shoeshine kits, one of the fastest ways to conserve energy is to switch to fluorescent lighting, which requires far less power than the ordinary-and highly inefficient-light bulb, but gives off from three to seven times as much illumination. There are many ways to pare energy use, but most of them would have to be enforced by law-or at least a strong national publicity campaign-to make them effective. For example, consumers can use regular refrigerators, which require 40% less power than those that are frost-free, and black-and-white television sets, which...
...Board and the Price Commission will go out of business within 90 days. Enforcement of the program will be taken over by the Cost of Living Council (COLC), which will have to decide which wage and price boosts to ignore, which to try to pare down in negotiation and which simply to order reduced. The COLC will be headed by John T. Dunlop, a tough, politically savvy labor economist and dean of Harvard's faculty of arts and sciences, who is equally respected in the dissimilar worlds of hardhats and mortarboards...
...didn't happen because the cadets are too bright to believe that the goals of U.S. policy are always benevolent. They know that self-interest necessarily plays a pare in foreign policy formulation...
...Congress sensed the trap, but many members regarded the President's proposal as a domestic version of the blank-check Gulf of Tonkin resolution, one that could only result in further reducing the legislative branch's already badly eroded constitutional powers. Refusing to part with, or even pare Congress's prerogative to determine appropriations, a coalition of liberal Democrats and conservative Republicans handily defeated the measure in the Senate...