Word: reacted
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Until now, "Power to the People" was only a slogan. Today the American future is literally in its citizens' hands - hands that rest upon ignition keys, electric switches, purses and wallets. How will America's citizens react? They could continue to do what they have always done: spend and damn the consequences. Or they could acknowledge that the forgotten virtue of thrift, as Ben Franklin preached, is not against the American grain but deep within...
...certain how long the Arab oil squeeze will last or of the exact size of the petroleum gap (estimates range from 2.5 million bbl. to 3 million bbl. daily of crude and refined products). Most important, there are no adequate models that might foretell how the U.S. economy will react to the first energy scarcity in its history. Explains Alan Greenspan, a consultant who frequently advises the Nixon Administration: "In classic forecasting, we have worked in a conceptual framework into which we have tried to put numbers based on history. But this is a whole new bird...
Point System. One result is that the boys often react to one another just the way their outside peers react to them. A five-year-old with a passion for dolls teased a fellow patient who picked up a doll, saying, "That's sissy stuff." Because many of the youngsters seem unaware of the way they appear to others, they are shown videotapes of themselves mincing down the hall...
...faculty will react to the student plan is still not clear. Robert H. Ebert, dean of the Med School, is rumored to have formed a committee of professors to study the student grievances, but he could not be reached to confirm this...
What could eventually turn the South against Nixon is that he has not acted with the personal honor that the region has always valued. It is the gut that may react first, as it did with the patrons in the saloon owned by Manuel Maloof, a power in the Democratic Party in De Kalb County, Ga. Maloof was bartending when the news of the missing tapes was reported on TV. "You wouldn't believe the look on their faces," he recalls. "They can't believe this guy. I'm honestly afraid he might force a revolt...