Word: saves
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...remains to be seen whether the switch will pay off. At congressional hearings, some experts had estimated that year-round D.S.T. (the present law mandates it to April 30, 1975) might save as much as 2% of the energy, particularly electricity, consumed daily in the U.S. A Department of Transportation official estimated that the time change could mean fewer traffic accidents. He explained that accidents in the evening are often caused by the fact that at that time many drivers' reactions are slowed-some are tired out from the day's labor, others have had too many after...
Because there will be about a 7 percent inflation rise next year and no increase in departmental funds, the History Department will have two or three fewer teaching fellows in order to save money...
Society, for Lelouch, has gone either abstract and artificial or money-mongering. The straight world has been sissified for sex. To save your sex, then, you have got to leave society--just as Simon, criminal, has staked out the last male frontier, the rough, untamed places where men can be men. Witness his Western hero style, the steady shoulders and gruff speech, the way he follows his fate, the loner doing what must be done. He's like the old maid's dream boyfriend, daredevil to the world, all sweetness to her. No weaknesses, no fetishes, no perversities...
...Council of Deans will consider at a meeting this morning the possibilities of a week-long break for George Washington's Birthday to save energy in February...
...growing number of unions are also taking second looks at the settlements they made over the past few years. The Teamsters have already demanded a reopening of their contract because of the 55-m.p.h. highway speed limit initiated by the Administration to save fuel. Over-the-road drivers are paid on the basis of how many miles they travel in a ten-hour period, and they contend that the speed limit is costing them up to 20% of their earnings. If the Teamsters succeed in getting more money from truckers to compensate for their losses, other unions hurt...