Word: researchers
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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Mexico's touchy new self-confidence stems from the fact that for the first time in history, the poor relation has something that its wealthy uncle needs badly: a large and dependable supply of oil and gas. Two weeks ago, the Congressional Research Service reported that Mexico's energy supplies rival those beneath the sands of Saudi Arabia. Mexico has proven reserves of 40 billion bbl. and estimated potential reserves of 200 billion bbl. By comparison, Saudi Arabia has known reserves of 166 billion bbl. If the U.S. could eventually shift its oil dependence closer to home...
...fuss over a subject that does not normally raise such passion? Rosalynn Carter, as honorary chairwoman of the President's Commission on Mental Health, was appearing before Senator Edward Kennedy's Subcommittee on Health and Scientific Research. Washington tingled at the prospect. Not since Eleanor Roosevelt testified in 1945 about local affairs in the District of Columbia had a President's wife appeared before a congressional committee...
...since her days as First Lady of Georgia, was disappointed that so little attention had been paid to the report of her commission last April. Among its 117 recommendations were improvement of care for the chronically mentally ill, incentive funds for states that develop community services and money for research into mental health problems...
...Carter even outdid the Senator in calling for new spending by taking issue with his assertion that there had been impressive gains in the amount allocated for mental health research. Taking inflation into account, she pointed out, research spending has declined in the past decade. But Kennedy got in the last word. He promised to study Rosalynn's recommendations carefully and, echoing one of Jimmy Carter's pet campaign phrases, added: "To quote a great American, 'You can depend...
...exaggerating, the gravity of the situation, took some symbolic steps intended to raise public awareness of the need to conserve oil. He issued a directive to all federal agency chiefs, suggesting that they lower the heat in federal buildings, restrict the use of Government vehicles, and suspend "energy-intensive research activities," though...