Word: summer
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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Freezing prices would only create shortages for everyone, because demand for the fuel would once again surge and the Government would wind up having to allocate supplies, just as with gasoline last summer. Washington would be wiser to quit looking for scapegoats and start enacting production-boosting programs that will bring more fuel of all sorts-solar, hydroelectric, synthetic and nuclear-to market, and at an affordable cost...
Gingerich said, however, at least one claim about Stonehenge is justified: 'the whole monument is lined up in the direction of the sun during the summer solstice." He added that Stonehenge's designers probably aligned the stones purposely to record the northernmost path...
Warner said she decided to form a group at Harvard after receiving several calls from students who read about her in The Boston Globe this summer...
...call for immediate shutdown of all nukes is not a naive fantasy. It is entirely feasible. Earlier this summer, fully one-third of all the nation's nuclear plants were shut down due to minor accidents, regulatory procedures and routine maintenance and refueling. There were no electricity shortages, no brown-outs. With nukes providing less than four percent of U.S. electricity (itself only a fraction of total energy needs), with 30 to 50 per cent of our energy being wasted, with a huge excess electrical generating capacity on the part of the utilities, even a modest program of energy efficiency...
Because Polish television ran frequent documentaries all summer on the 40th anniversary of the Nazi takeover, the emotional level of the people remained high, Williams said...