Word: rushed
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...hell is going on back there in Washington." The industry's biggest problem is that environmental laws have made digging and burning the fuel a bureaucratic nightmare. Worst offender: the antipollution amendments that Congress added to the Clean Air Act, with Carter's support, in the rush just before the summer adjournment in 1977. Enforcement regulations proposed by the Environmental Protection Agency would sharply tighten the already strict standards on pollution emissions and make burning coal more difficult than ever. The amendments already require, among other things, that new coal-fired plants install highly complex "scrubbers" to remove...
Nevertheless, the research has been impressive enough to start a rush in the direction of psychopharmacology. People with titles like biochemist, psychobiologist, neurophysiologist and psychopharmacologist are attracting scarce federal funds and replacing traditional psychiatrists as chairmen of hospital psychiatry departments. The field offers what psychiatry seems to have been yearning for all through the 1970s: scientific expertise, medical underpinnings and an escape from the troublesome subjectivity of the human mind...
...trials performed by one pharmaceutical company, patients at Manhattan's Eastern Women's Center had trouble following the printed instructions. One potential problem for kit users: some women tend to rush into the tests, failing to wait at least nine days after a missed period, as the instructions direct. Thus they get negative results even when they are pregnant...
...potentially hostile hands, Washington cannot afford too great a loosening of its ties with Saudi Arabia, a country strongly committed to pan-Arab interests. To assure moderate Arab states of the U.S. dedication to a general Middle East settlement, Carter is dispatching a high-level delegation on a rush visit to Saudi Arabia and Jordan. Reflecting the broad geopolitical concerns of the U.S., the group is headed by National Security Adviser Zbigniew Brzezinski and includes General David Jones, the Chairman of the Joint Chiefs of Staff. To dramatize his personal involvement, the President is sending his son Chip...
...quickly−the U.S. is likely to be hurt by the tightening oil squeeze. Using regular-sales tax data supplied by state governments, the letter warned that by the end of next week there would be a shockingly large shortfall of 8.9% in gasoline supplies. A rush by panicky motorists to gas up would virtually guarantee long, temper-fraying lines reminiscent of the 1973-74 Arab oil-embargo days. Hoarding would simply make the gas shortage worse and further drive up fuel prices...