Word: suspicion
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...would have dared predict a year ago that 68° thermostat settings and gasless Sundays would so quickly become routine?-many Americans are asking not how the nation has managed to avoid the worst but whether there really is any energy shortage worth worrying about. Growing numbers are voicing suspicion that the whole emergency has been a hoax engineered by the oil companies to squeeze out huge price increases...
...want to be able to prepare for the worst" or "The day of cheap energy is over"). If people stop listening, that could badly hurt Simon's program, which depends greatly on voluntary cooperation. In particular, public boredom with Simon could foil his attempts to dispel the growing suspicion that the energy shortage is a phony...
Devil Theory. That suspicion has been fanned largely by one fact: after three months of Arab embargo, blaring crisis headlines, long lines at gas stations and airline and auto-plant layoffs, the stocks of refined products held in the U.S. by oil companies are on the whole higher than they were a year ago. The latest figures from the American Petroleum Institute show that on Jan. 4 stocks of gasoline and residual oil (used to power factories and electric utility plants) were slightly lower than a year earlier. But inventories of jet fuels were slightly above those of early...
...gloom that has enveloped the industrialized West since the Arabs unsheathed their oil weapon in October lightened last week. Arab nations announced an easing of their production cutbacks-and around the world, there was growing suspicion that they never did slash oil output as much as they had proclaimed. Europe, heavily dependent on Middle East oil, seems surprisingly well supplied, and TIME uncovered evidence that Arab petroleum has been leaking into the U.S., too, despite a supposedly total embargo...
...suspicion must exist, of course, that the constant emphasis on corruption is like those "crime waves" that newspapers used to discover in slack periods when no other story dominated the head lines. Any story with however tenuous a "Watergate angle" has a better chance of making the front page. In this effort, journalism may have had a collaborator in Richard Nixon. Indeed, as the notes on those 18 minutes of missing tape show, the White House's first response to Watergate was to invoke public relations to "top" the embarrassing news: "We should be on the attack - for diversion...