Word: subjectively
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...there was little doubt that energy was his deepest domestic concern. Schlesinger talked more than half a dozen times on the subject with Carter after returning from meetings in Paris with members of the International Energy Agency. One point he stressed: U.S. allies are deeply concerned about the nation's inability to cut its energy consumption. The whole subject, said Schlesinger, is Carter's "No. 1 priority." Carter readily agreed. Said he: "It's the most important domestic issue that we will face while I am in office." He thus placed energy above tax reform (which...
...White House argues that a hike of such magnitude would provide ample incentive to increase production, since natural gas is plentiful. But gas producers remain reluctant to press ahead with rapid development of new fields. If these fields were brought on-stream now, they would be subject to price control. If the producers wait, they reason, controls may be relaxed-and prices are bound to be substantially higher...
...variations in its spokesmen's positions partly as a word game and partly as a form of psychological warfare in response to Israeli statements on the Middle East. But they also reflect another reality: the Palestinian movement is a barely yoked anarchy, and P.L.O. Chairman Yasser Arafat is subject to a constituency that can usually only agree to disagree. He is merely first among 3 million or so Palestinian equals, scattered across a dozen countries and linked together by a host of overlapping groups. Arafat persuades by force of personality; rarely does he command. Some say he has survived...
Although the Kampuchea government has diplomatic relations with 86 states, only eleven foreign embassies have been allowed to open. With the possible exception of the Chinese, who have close ties with Cambodia's rulers, all foreign diplomats are subject to this strange honorable house arrest. They are not allowed to go more than 200 yards or so from their compounds. Because the embassies are not permitted autos, an envoy who wants to make a call or shop at a recently opened "diplomatic store" must request a car from the Foreign Ministry. Predictably, there is little social life. Summed...
World population growth-and how to slow it-continues to be a subject of great controversy. The planet's poorest nations have yet to find effective ways to check their population increase-at least without restricting citizens' rights and violating such traditions as the custom of having large families as insurance in old age. India's new government, for example, has abandoned coercive birth control procedures, even though the country, with a population of 635 million, is growing by a million new people per month. The U.S. National Security Council has said that runaway population growth...