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Word: staying (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1970-1979
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...bread and in the city man's mind. He decides to build a solar house. He's going to out-Dubin Dubin. Out-Butler Butler. When he's a very old man, too creaky to cut and split eight cords of wood a year, he's going to stay warm. Damn them all! ?John Skow

Author: /time Magazine | Title: The Cooling of America | 12/24/1979 | See Source »

...Alaska, where thinking hard to stay warm can be a requirement for survival, 258 residents?one out of every 2,000 souls, a rate higher than anywhere else in the U.S.?submitted ideas to a Department of Energy small grants program. Elizabeth Hart of Galena won $13,800 to build a solar greenhouse that will use the body heat of chickens as a source of warmth. R. Charles Vowell of Unalaska got $12,000 for a 10,000-gal. bio-gas generator that uses crab wastes from canneries to produce a burnable methane. Craig Anderson of Kenny Lake received...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: The Cooling of America | 12/24/1979 | See Source »

...completely solar-powered society). But the Department of Energy does not dismiss such ideas?and there may be wisdom here. What the woodburners and the backyard inventors are expressing is more than flabby "life-style" preening; it is an exceedingly determined kind of self-reliance: "I am going to stay warm, damn the Arabs, and damn the oil companies, and damn the damned Government...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: The Cooling of America | 12/24/1979 | See Source »

...local tax payments rise, and so do its benefits under the U.S.'s so-called foreign tax credit. President Carter has vowed to tighten up on the credits, but he has not made much progress partly because Aramco's owners argue that they need the benefits to stay competitive in world markets...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Business: Aramco's Stormy Petrol | 12/24/1979 | See Source »

...charter member of the Bundestag and served as its Vice President for 20 years before retiring in 1972. Co ordinator of programs under the 1963 Franco-German Reconciliation Agreement from 1969 until his death, Schmid bitterly regretted his late entry into statecraft: "I believed earlier that one should stay away from politics because one could so easily be dirtied. Then the Third Reich arrived, and I asked myself: Who is actually responsible...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Milestones, Dec. 24, 1979 | 12/24/1979 | See Source »

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