Word: summer
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...days later, Carter tried to patch up relations with the oil industry. He hastily assembled 15 executives in the Cabinet room for a session that a White House aide said would plot "how we can best manage the projected gasoline shortfall this summer." The President also wanted to know why prices were rising so fast. For two hours, the oilmen gave him their version of the crisis. The gasoline retailers blamed the oil producers for zooming prices at the pumps. Sniped Victor Rasheed, president of the Virginia Retail Dealers Association: "There has been some price gouging, perhaps...
...extent of suffering would depend on several variables. Example: if the attack were to take place on a clear summer weekend afternoon with most people outdoors, the number exposed to direct thermal radiation would be 25 times greater than if it were a cold winter night with most people inside their homes...
...controversy may have benefitted the community. Allison plans this summer to form a group to consider how the K-School can use what it has learned from the Engelhard controversy to protect the interests of donors while simultaneously taking into account the positions of all members of the community. This gifts committee will draw from not only members of the ad hoc committee, but also experienced fundraisers. Allison says he doubts it will ever come up with a definitive statement on gifts. Such a statement coincides with President Bok's position on the ethical implications of gifts, which suggests that...
Rosovsky requested similar letters from all GSAS departments, and "the letters are still coming in," Keenan says, adding that he and Rosovsky will analyze the letters this summer, formulate some strategies, and "go from there...
...stressed enough--there is a total absence of any facilities for social and intellectual get-togethers on the level of the undergraduate house system," explains Lee Smolin, a graduate student in Physics and a GSC member. GSC members will look for a center on campus this summer, and hope to arrange GSAS intramural sports next year as another attempt to foster community spirit...