Word: pasts
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...talk about excessive oil waste and ask what country started that mess, I could as well ask you now what country it was that wasted a great deal of oil in a useless war more than 20 years after the one you mentioned. But it's not the past that counts, but the present and the future. And the fact is that fewer than 250 million Americans spend more than one-third of the world's oil resources...
...American people, to discover their anxieties and to reassure them of the concern of their chosen leaders. "There has been a lost sense of trust," he told aides, "a loss of confidence in the future." Part of that concern, he inevitably learned, involved the President himself. For some time past, but more sharply this summer, the U.S. has been slipping into a morass of interrelated problems. One is the energy crisis, marked by its gas lines and soaring prices. One is the painful combination of inflation and economic stagnation. One is the widespread perception that Jimmy Carter has seemed unable...
...probably are the most blessed of all the Western nations, but [we are] in effect two nations: the producing nation-ours is ahiong the largest on earth -and the largest consumer nation on earth. And in the past, as you know, the producers have controlled our political system. In the past two years, there has been a growing division in our society about oil because the consumer voice has become stronger and stronger, and now they're about equal, I think...
...perhaps, they would like to find the deserted Eagle, and maybe take a few pictures or inscribe some graffiti on the "we-came-in-peace-for-all-mankind" plaque, it's not too tough. Just head east from Keppler, continue past Copernicus, and hang a right at the Sea of Vapors. If you hit the Sea of Fertility, turn around; you've gone...
...WILLINGNESS TO FORGIVE and forget past sins is a peculiar American habit. Ask Richard Nixon, elected to the White House six years after giving a creditable impression of a psychotic in the wake of the California gubernatorial election...