Word: talking
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...they get acquainted, their chatter is national TV talk-show modern ("With those freeways in L.A., man, nobody says how far anything is in miles, it's just hours, you know"). The sophistication of kids from towns as small as Grey bull, Wyo., is passing wondrous, but it is disconcerting too; one wants something more than Johnny Carson from the leaders of tomorrow...
...Howard K. Smith. Dressed in jeans or slacks, sneakers or penniless loafers, they exude information as they discuss conference topics: this morning it's the Quality of Life, this afternoon Education, tomorrow Leadership and Community Involvement. Soft-spoken Ralph Shain of Bellaire, Texas: "If you want to talk about coal gasification, the Federal Government hasn't yet licensed a single plant." Dark-eyed Patti Anderson of Granby, Colo.: "The population of the underdeveloped countries will double in 20 years, but they're not going to start having fewer children when three out of four die before reaching...
President Carter acknowledged the new reality in a talk with a group of editors. He said the accident "will make all of us reassess our present safety regulations ... and will probably lead inexorably toward even more stringent safety design mechanisms and standards." Said Senate Majority Leader Robert Byrd: "We've been assured time and time again by the industry and federal regulatory agencies that this was something that was impossible, that could not happen, but it did happen. There's going to be great difficulty on the part of the American people to feel absolutely reassured about nuclear power...
...pass judgment on a corporation that refuses to talk...
...power and whiles away its energy policy hours concocting elaborate plans to lift the controls that regulate domestic oil prices. Raising prices, the administration maintains, will stimulate domestic production and discourage consumers from wasting oil. Ideally, the oil companies will use the extra revenue for the expanded exploration they talk so much about and the government will tax away windfall profits. In fact, the rise in oil prices after deregulation--which may be as much as seven cents per gallon of gas--coupled with the OPEC increases will subject lower and middle income Americans to further debilitating inflation...