Word: pleasing
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NONATTAINMENT. Because areas that do not meet the 1970 act's minimal clean-air requirements cannot legally attract more polluting industry, the EPA last fall announced a Solomonic compromise: it would permit new factories and power plants in a "nonattainment" area if their pollution was offset by curbs on...
Bumper Stickers. To whip up enthusiasm for the bills, supporters have packed committee hearings and state house galleries with vocal supporters, many of whom are elderly. In Wichita, Kans., Virginia Wilson held a Laetrile taste-in at her home, featuring fresh fruits, lima beans, beets and carrots, which proponents claim...
Though he knew it would take eight years to break even on the $1,600 investment, Nagy decided to take the plunge, and he signed a contract for the unit the day after President Carter's energy speech. Then he learned his home improvement would add another $90 to...
In general, the very uncertainty of world oil-reserve estimates should reinforce the urgency of Carter's pleas for conservation. No responsible government can base policy on the hope that the most optimistic calculation of world resources is right-and that the technology will develop to pump the oil...
Housewives not only buy huge quantities of Marabel Morgan's books but also write her fervent letters to tell her their difficulties. The letters (100 per day) are a cross section of "housewife blues" in the age of liberation. She answers all these pleas, which provided the basis for...