Word: switching
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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Whether it will last, no one can tell. The forces working to slow productivity further are dauntingly powerful. The rise in energy costs pinches productivity hard by increasing the expense of using labor-saving machinery. So does the inexorable switch to a service economy: it is much harder for doctors, credit counselors, teachers and policemen to raise or even measure their productivity than for steelworkers. The investment lag is especially perilous: as productivity slows and costs inflate, businessmen become even more hesitant to spend on new machinery, which in turn cuts productivity and speeds inflation still further...
...questions about nuclear power in people's minds. Moreover, New England is at the end of the line for coal transportation and completely at the mercy of foreign oil price fluctuations. Wood, however, is right here, and the technology is proven. So why shouldn't we switch?" Why not indeed...
...plays tennis on Sundays on his backyard court, spends a lot of time troubleshooting on the phone ("Right, Ed, I'll check on it first thing Monday morning"), and any strange occurrences in the outside world can be quickly swept away with a flick of the wiper-washer switch on his blue-gray Volvo. Ignore for the moment that Chamberlain seems to have only recently been introduced to his family, that his wife (Olivia Hamnett) is rather oaken, and that Chamberlain, who supposedly grew up in Sydney, hasn't a trace of an accent--because things are about...
...Bureau of the Budget said in 1957 that the savings from switching to a uniform size (i.e., 8½ by 11) would be "marginal." A 1970 study by the Bureau of Standards assessed what it called "paper sizes annoyance factors." A subsequent study by the Bureau of Standards argued that both Government and business should switch to 7¾ in. by 11 in., on the ground that this would be the most esthetically pleasing...
Residential consumers are not directly involved, since few have experienced actual supply interruptions to their homes. Only a handful have felt the need to switch away from gas. Nonetheless, state-imposed bans on making gas available in new construction have held down the number of residential users, and that is something that the Energy Department would also like changed. So confident has the department become about the availability of domestic gas that last week it rejected import applications for some 2 billion cu. ft. of liquefied natural gas a day from Algeria...