Word: seemly
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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These official recommendations seem a well-informed but familiar rehash. (Is it partly because N.A.S.S.P. officials promise to send the proposals to the White House for the attention of Jimmy Carter?) Lacking as yet a special style of their own, the kids lapse into officialese, the language in which adults in the bureaucracies back home so often speak to them...
Harrington said the nation's problems with foreign policy relate to the American mentality. If Third World nations stop insulting the United States and multinationals and work harder. Americans seem to think these countries will progress as the United States has, he said...
Take a movie crew, add some traffic jams and roadblocks, swirl it around with a touch of the sixties and top it off with a mound of plastic snow right outside Massachusetts Hall and what do you have? A University and a movie company that don't seem...
...insulation tax rebate--were to result in only a 5 per cent decrease in the overall demand for oil it would be well worth the effort since U.S. oil supplies are currently only 2.5 per cent below demand, according to government estimates. The benefits of such a program would seem to outweigh the costs...
...some point, the U.S. must confront the profligacy of its energy consumption, and deal with it directly. Economic tinkering harms more than it helps, especially when inflation already runs towards double digits annually. Plans to give the oil companies more money and power companies more nuclear plants seem to promise a perpetuation of a system that has a high price tag and a limited life expectancy...