Word: short
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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SAWHILL: I prefer to call it not a crisis, but a problem, arising from our growing dependence for oil on a politically unstable part of the world. We have failed to curtail imports, and in the short term we are completely at the mercy of the Middle East oil suppliers...
LEVY: A perceived shortage of only 2% or 3% may result in price increases of the order of 20%, 30%, 40%, even before supplies actually run short. So far this year, OPEC has increased prices by about 25%. As a result, the importing world will lave to spend about $35 billion a year more for the same quantity...
...short term, what can the world do to cope...
More generally, homosexuals adopted long hair before it became de rigueur for young males of all persuasions; once long hair was in, the gays led the swing to short back and sides. There is, in fact, a saying among homosexuals that straights will adopt a fashion just as avante-garde gays are turning to something...
...spoke in com plete sentences. He was soon memorizing advanced charts of human anatomy, and could whip his grandfather at chess at age four. But at school Tommy produced conflicting est results (once scoring low in mathematical ability, later achieving a very high score). Teachers frequently complained about his short attention span, and sent him to stand out in the hall to keep him from distracting the other children. Because of his undisciplined be havior, he was at first denied admittance to the school's twelve-week program for gifted children; later, he was admitted. "But it was mostly...