Word: summers
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...Atlantic article entitled "The Passionless Presidency," the 29-year-old Fallows relates how he joined the Carter campaign with high hopes in the summer of 1976. Recalls Fallows: "I felt that he, alone among the candidates, might look past the tired formulas of left and right and offer something new." Almost as soon as Carter entered the White House, however, Fallows began growing disenchanted. As a speechwriter, he had enjoyed access to Carter when the new President was working out his own thoughts, and Fallows came to regard Carter as lacking in "sophistication," even "ignorant" of how power could...
When they are done, Bianchi will be tried in Washington, in late summer at the earliest. If he is convicted, the prosecutor will ask for the death penalty...
...second time in a decade, energy scare stories have become the stuff of headlines: motorists who confront the prospect of a summer of gasoline shortages at $1 per gal.; homeowners who have visions of dollar bills fluttering up the chimney every time the oil burner in the basement trips on. Angry and resentful, people are blaming the one institution that not only grows richer every time there is an oil squeeze, but is as close at hand as the nearest service station: the $360 billion-a-year U.S. oil industry...
...draw down sharply in recent months in order to supply customers. Companies are also shifting production from gasoline to heating oil so as to build up stocks for next winter. Even Carter last week admitted that this is necessary, and he warned that the U.S. faces gasoline shortages this summer and fall and a worse pinch next year...
...Consumption of unleaded gasoline has soared 25%, far surpassing the capacity of refineries to make enough. To keep abreast of demand, refineries have had to wring every last drop of gasoline out of crude oil shipments, and this has held down production of heating oil. Now, just as the summer driving season is approaching, refineries may have to cut back on gasoline production in order to increase output of heating oil to replenish stockpiles...