Word: provenances
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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When it comes to oil reserves, the U.S. is surely in the hole-as the American Petroleum Institute reiterated last week. The industry trade association reckoned that the nation's proven recoverable reserves dropped last year by 1.7 billion bbl., to 30.9 billion bbl. That is just one of many statistics measuring just what the U.S. has down there, for no industrial society gathers more energy information or has more computers to refine it. Yet the U.S. is woefully unaware of the real size of its energy resources...
...other hand, attempts are being made to renovate the existing housing stock rather than clear it away. The Department of Housing and Urban Development in coordination with the BRA sponsors programs to provide federally guaranteed low-interest mortgages for housing stock renovation. Unfortunately, these efforts have proven largely unsuccessful because such a large amount of capital is needed for adequate renovation that only upper middle class "pioneers" can afford to move in. As they do so, land values rise and remnants of the old community are driven out like squatters...
...state politics without compromising. A generalist, he maximizes his effectiveness over a wide range of issues by taking the most pragmatic line. Frank explains himself best: he will take "anything better that doesn't make things worse." This strategy may lack the glamor of idealism, but its effectiveness is proven...
...kind of end run around the obscenity laws-a ban on sexually explicit pictures of children, whether legally obscene or not. One bill introduced into the House of Representatives by Democrats John Murphy of New York and Dale Kildee of Michigan already has 103 cosponsors. It would make any proven involvement with the production and sale of explicit sex pictures of children a felony. Says a Kildee aide: "Our bill is clearly enough directed toward child abuse so that the First Amendment should not arise. This is why we defined child pornography as a form of abuse, rather than...
...current political situation, the capabilities of Afro-Americans are increasingly being challenged in the name of pseudo-science: Bernard Davis's attack on Afro-American Medical School graduates as unqualified; Arthur Jensen's appointment to the American Association for the Advancement of Science despite the proven fraudulence of the basis of much of his work on intelligence inheritability; Nathan Glazer's attacks on Affirmative Action as "Affirmative Discrimination." And there are endless additional examples from the national and international scene. Within this context the Lampoon would have us accept their portrayal of Afro-American people as innocent. It seems that...