Word: standing
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...House in May rejected the President's stand-by rationing plan, but it offers some clues to any future program. Car owners would get ration coupons and could sell unused coupons on a "white market" at any price; each car would be allotted about 50 gal. a month, though the totals would vary by state; no more than three cars in each household could receive coupons; extra rations would be given to police cars, ambulances, taxis, farm tractors; heavy recreational vehicles would get nothing...
...denied that his stand on SALT had anything to do with his plans to announce his own candidacy for President, probably this fall. While public opinion seems generally to support the SALT treaty, conservative Republicans vigorously oppose it. However, they are still angry about his votes last year for the Panama Canal treaties. Said a supporter: "We are still hearing a lot about Panama. It won't go away...
Byrd has not made up his mind about the treaty, and the Carter White House badly needs him on its side if the pact is to stand any chance of passage. Thus the Administration accommodatingly lent Byrd Carter's own back-up jet, Air Force Two, a passel of State Department arms control experts as traveling companions and, as tour guide, Malcolm Toon, the testy U.S. Ambassador to Moscow. To shepherd Byrd around the Soviet Union, Toon will have to skip his embassy's July 4 celebration and his own birthday party (he will...
...poor man's alternative to the gas chambers is the open sea. Today it is the Chinese Vietnamese. The Cambodians have already been added to the list of people who are going to die. Why not Thailand tomorrow, and Malaysia, Singapore and others who stand in the way of Viet Nam's dreams...
...pronouncement worthy of Orwell's Ministry of Truth. Already, there was talk of CLO factors (clothing insulation value) and acclimatization periods. In this case, though, the agency involved was the Department of Energy and the proposed effective date 1979, not 1984. Part of President Carter's stand-by energy-conservation measure approved by Congress last May, the plan in question would require that thermostats in nonresidential buildings be set no lower than 80° F in the summer and no higher than 65° F in the winter, and that hot water settings be turned down...