Word: reminder
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...current production glut and low fuel prices have allowed us to comfortably forget that we are running out of oil. Surely we don't want to suffer another OPEC-induced energy crunch, but we may well need one to remind us that a crisis still exists...
...need something to make us realize that the energy crisis has not, and will not, just go away and that we must not relent in our efforts to plan for the future. Perhaps the fear of another OPEC oil squeeze will remind us, again...
...will encourage the United States and the Soviet Union to continue on the path of disarmament to which they have committed themselves at last. I shall do my best to hasten the start of negotiations on conventional weapons in Europe. I shall remind others that though security is based on deterrence, that does not mean either constant overbidding or redundancy, and that a reduction of the arms race is the logical complement of this strategy...
...great-grandfather's stamp collection eventually gets hocked. "Memo" is utilitarian and modest. No one expects a memo to be preserved out of pure sentiment, because a memo only aims to be helpful for what comes next. And his memos--subtle and insightful--will stick around, because they will remind future writers of what he and his contemporaries have discovered about fiction...
...does no good to remind him that in the course of winning 20 major championships, he hit a few fairways previously. Nicklaus thinks he has found magic again. The last time was two years ago this week at the Masters in Augusta, Ga., where anyone with a wet eye could see that his mother in the gallery and his son at his side had more to do with a sixth victory surging out of him at 46 than did the oversize putter he waved jubilantly. "I wanted something with the largest possible moment of inertia and the smallest dispersion factor...