Word: safes
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...relax. No more worries about the gasoline shortage. My confidence was restored when Energy Secretary James Schlesinger said: "I think it would be safe to say that we hope the worst is over...
Here and there one can hear the experts mutter that maybe by 1990 we can have mass production of clean, comfortable, safe cars that average 50 or even 75 miles to the gallon. History is working for Adams' challenge. Enough people around Detroit remember Henry the First's caustic reminiscence in the 1920s. Said Ford: "All the wise people demonstrated conclusively that the new gas engine could not compete with steam...
...painful lesson that today's official line may be tomorrow's heresy. Says a U.S. Sinologist who has recently visited several provinces: "Chinese officials seem to have decided that things are still far too uncertain and that they've got to play it safe and look out for No. 1." To a growing minority of officials with an appetite for the good life, that means not only pressing foreigners for favors, but also siphoning off material goods for their own use, and sometimes even appropriating manpower to build private homes...
...regime also holds the power to veto assignments of bishops to particular cities. In an outrageous case, the Communists rejected 20 candidates for Archbishop of Wroclaw before accepting the supposedly "safe" Henryk Gulbinowicz. Jokes Minister Kakol: "The church knows the way we function, so the simplest thing would be for them to put their favorite candidate in last place...
...feel safe. I never get pushed around. I was even affronted when the town's 'in dustrial hygienist' came to the house to in vestigate a neighbor's complaint that my swimming pool pump was too noisy...