Word: ratings
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...energy proposals, however, is their short-sightedness and timidity. The public's needs require a massive reorientation of national policy. Carter needs to propose--and to put pressure on Congress to enact--laws that would shift federal spending away from superhighways into mass transit, laws that would change utility rate structures, laws that would mandate conservation and finance home insulation, solar heating and other energy alternatives. Above all, Carter needs to regain the public's respect for, and willingness to follow a President's lead; with his energy proposals, however, Carter is fast squandering what credibility he has left...
...costs of decontrol far outweigh its minimal benefits. The Congressional Budget Office (CBO) estimates that it will cost consumers a staggering $16 billion annually in higher prices, not to speak of a higher rate of inflation throughout the economy. And the distribution of this cost will fall most heavily on the elderly and the poor, who spend a greater proportion of their income on fuel...
...SENSIBLE WAY to encourage conservation is to attack the causes of high consumption: for instance, uninsulated homes and offices, huge investments in highway systems, and utility rate structures that reward large energy consumers. Higher prices have proven themselves an ineffective and costly method of forcing conservation...
...himself, and wrapping around the skirts of chilled and hapless prostitutes...A sinister black coach drawn by sinister black horses into a sinister black night...Inside, one of Britain's most famous Victorians slowly savors the edge of a jeweled dagger, and waits...A delicious setting for first rate sherlock holmes sleuthing, but unfortunately Sherlock Holmes never shows up--Christopher Plummer does. Dressed in the right clothes, and equipped with the best Dr. Watson ever, Plummer has potential, but he never forgets about that charming scar on his lower lip, that little half-smile, that direct and demanding gaze...
When local devotees of the Metropolitan Opera gather this week in Hynes Auditorium to revel in their share of the Met's annual national tour, they will get their money's worth, even at $20 or $25 a seat. They will see and hear first rate singers like Jon Vickers, Regine Crespin, Luciano Pavarotti, Leonie Rysanek, and Sherrill Milnes. They will probably leave with high regard for the Met's artistic standards. They may even be a bit jealous of their New York acquaintances who can stroll down to Lincoln Center, spend astonishingly large amounts of money...