Word: pells
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...well be that there is just not much oil left to be found in the continental U.S., at least not in amounts large enough to justify a pell-mell drilling rate. No one knows for sure, of course, but experts are beginning to wonder. The U.S. Geological Survey recently cut in half its estimate of recoverable oil left in the U.S., to 82 billion bbl. Oil Expert Walter Levy questions whether it makes much sense for oil companies to continue "spending more and more, and finding less and less." Wildcatters will no doubt continue exploring vigorously, but they have accounted...
...pell-mell push, the house passed five bills by votes of more than 130 to 0, although only about 30 of the 176 members were present. As the roll was called, legislators scampered about the floor to vote for absent colleagues. When even such stratagems failed to reduce the pile of legislation sufficiently, the Democratic leadership combined 168 bills into two packages and forced a vote on each without debate. Most of the legislators had no idea what they were considering, but they whipped the two through...
Complaints about ambiguities and weaknesses in the language of the law were voiced loudly enough to prompt Congressional additions to what became the Pell-Buckley amendment, which exempted documents written before September, 1974, from student access. Harvard's efforts to limit the effect of the legislation included the recommendation from Daniel Steiner '54, that all confidential admission materials be placed in escrow and this prompted student protest...
...Republican Jacob Javits of New York and Rhode Island Democrat Claiborne Pell visited Cuba last September. Massachusetts Senator Edward Kennedy is planning to go in June...
...main objection, he told a dozen freshmen in the Union, was that the administration's drive for American energy independence is "just going pell-mell forward, without mentioning conservation...