Word: short
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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WHAT IS MOST disappointing about Carter's recent energy proposals, however, is their short-sightedness and timidity. The public's needs require a massive reorientation of national policy. Carter needs to propose--and to put pressure on Congress to enact--laws that would shift federal spending away from superhighways into mass transit, laws that would change utility rate structures, laws that would mandate conservation and finance home insulation, solar heating and other energy alternatives. Above all, Carter needs to regain the public's respect for, and willingness to follow a President's lead; with his energy proposals, however, Carter...
Freshman John Bridgeland played impressively at number five in his first league match, stunning John Ferguson, 6-1, 6-2. Bridgeland served hard, standing on tiptoes to hit the ball and get as much height as possible out of his short frame. He also banged solid ground strokes and an occasional exceptional passing shot...
...revenue available from ticket sales. The Met is squeezing as much as it can out of its ticket-buyers; at $40 an orchestra seat next season (up from $37.50 this year), an evening at the opera is probably the most expensive form of entertainment available to New Yorkers short of a meal at the Palace. And European opera houses often charge more...
...telecasts may actually have led to the upgrading of the tour. "What they're televising is their finest stuff," a New York-based writer on music says. "If the company then shows up in your home town with lower quality than that, you'll feel you're getting short shrift...
...Winkle, a very short opera--Dunster Library...