Word: rational
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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Congress completed the debacle by yielding to parochial interests and finally shrinking fearfully from anything that might restrict driving. The Senate did approve stand-by rationing, 59 to 38, but only after forcing several concessions. The most important would have allotted ration coupons on the basis not of car ownership but of past gasoline consumption, thereby funneling more to Western and rural states. Besides, the Senate passed a resolution that the plan should go into effect only if gasoline supplies fell 20% below demand, a greater gap than anyone presently expects...
...fact, Big Oil is hardly the voracious, devouring money muncher that the White House contends. That distinction belongs to OPEC, which provides the world with half its daily petro-ration and, by controlling the supply, fixes the price. Having hiked the base price 14.5% since January, the cartel has lately tacked on expensive premiums and surcharges and now threatens price increases in June. The rises are a major reason why inflation hit 13% in this year's first quarter...
Upon his return to Chicago he began practicing on what had been Camp Douglas during the Civil War. using the leftover ration cans as cups. In 1895 he designed the Chicago Golf Club. Yale is one of MacDonald's masterpieces, one of the premier university courses, and is ranked in Golf Digest magazine's Top One Hundred Courses...
Other possibilities for reform include the abolition of the current 2.5 to one male-female "ceiling ration," publication of lottery numbers, and the elimination of biographical material from housing applications...
Malnutrition and even hunger prevail throughout Viet Nam. Agricultural output declined 15% in 1978, while prospects for this year are so poor that Hanoi has already scaled down its crop estimates from the stated targets. Following widespread flooding of rice lands last September, the monthly ration of food per person was cut from 33 Ibs. to 29 Ibs. Of that, ordinary peasants and workers are allowed only a little over 2 Ibs. of rice, the staple of the Vietnamese diet...