Word: roading
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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ADELMAN: There is no genuine supply crisis. There was an accident, Iran. We are traveling a bumpy road, and will continue to do so as long as OPEC is in charge. There is nothing we can do to make the cartel produce more. We have handed control of world oil over to a small, noncompetitive and irresponsible group...
...greatest errors was not to build up our strategic oil reserves. Had we done so, the Iranian cutback would have had less of an impact. We should move full speed ahead with the reserve plan now because there will be another crisis some time down the road...
...schools and professional schools were an "easy assumption" for Harvard undergrads. By 1975 the choice was a more conscious one, and downturns in the economy placed a further question mark beside any career plans. Jewett recalls that not only freshmen, but even high school applicants asked frequently about the road to professional school--students were "more conservative, less adventurous, and less willing to do something that could put them out on a limb." Between 1971 and 1974 the percentage of graduating seniors who were undecided about their career goals plummeted from 26 to 4. You paid your money, picked your...
...starting gun fires at noon, cheers break the tension-filled air, and a slow, thick mass of human lava flows down the Hopkinton road towards Boston. For the next several hours all that matters is your body, the distance and the time...
...what do you think about for 26 miles? The crowd. A million spectators make the Boston marathon the best footrace in the world. Entire village populations line the road to cheer you on. But that's not all they...