Word: picks
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...require energy efficiency reports from the 2000 largest energy users, to give tax incentives for good insulation. Her candidate will probably call for antitrust action and legislation to break up the vertical and horizontal integration of the oil companies, to restore competition to the energy business. She'll pick the one who says that conservation is the best new source of energy, who will offer leadership and incentives to conserve instead of higher prices...
...competing for a very limited piece of pie." Illustrating that point, Social Worker Jerry Carey of South Boston observes: "I know that there's no way that my sons will get to Harvard, even if they have good grades, because the admissions committee will throw the Irish out and pick the blacks. That's crazy. It's also depressing as hell...
...Woods frets, too, about the boys being so far from home. Both may want to stay after school for sports. To accommodate them, Woods says he is ready to drive out late every afternoon to pick them...
...industrial accidents, few are messier than oil spills. Floating booms can contain surface oil and keep it from spreading while it is picked up and recovered by giant vacuum cleaners. Straw filters can be used to pick up oil that makes its way into shallow waters. But scientists have been trying for years to develop more effective methods of dealing with spills. Now one team seems to have succeeded. General Electric announced last week that scientists at its Schenectady, N.Y., laboratories have created a microbe that can eat petroleum in quantity...
...makes money, while Hefner's nonpublishing sidelines mostly do not. Playboy Enterprises, Inc., the parent firm, last week announced its third consecutive losing quarter. Playboy is considered by its competitors as still relatively mild. "Bondage is where the action is right now, but we have been slow to pick up on it," complains one Playboy editor. No need to, argues Editorial Director Arthur Kretchmer: "We still have the class act of the magazine business. The answer is not more skin...