Word: thirst
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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Even the instigators of the trend now feel that it has gone too far. "We've overextended ourselves in this form," says NBC Program Chief Lawrence White. As a result, notes Fred Silverman, CBS'S vice president of programming, there is a "public thirst for comedy" and for positive, nonviolent drama. Both executives agree with the president of ABC entertainment, Martin Starger, that "there's going to be a drift away from the law and order shows." If so, the drift will be so gradual as to be barely noticeable this year. Among the midseason replacements being...
None of that is really reassuring, though; the Arabs essentially have the West over a 42-gal. oil barrel. World oil use will more than double during the 1970s. Slaking that intense thirst requires continual swift increases in output, and there is only one place they can come from. The desert sands of the Arab nations hold at least 300 billion bbl. of easily recoverable oil, or 60% of the proven reserves in the non-Communist world. Merely by increasing production more slowly than the West desires-let alone reducing it-the Arabs could cause considerable discomfort...
...future needs. Under plans announced last year, the Saudis had promised to boost production from 8,000,000 bbl. a day to 20 million by 1980 (U.S. oil production, by contrast, is expected to remain at 12 million bbl. per day). So great is the world's thirst for oil-consumption will more than double during this decade-that a decision by Saudi Arabia to allow only modest expansion might affect economic growth in the West...
...know I want your pain, but I don't want it now"), however, has Greene so baldly confronted the problem of God and evil, or the purpose, if any, of the horrors that God seems to visit alike upon those condemned to believe and those condemned to thirst after faith. "Free will was the excuse for everything," says Léon, the priest turned revolutionary, as he recalls his early training. "It was God's alibi. Evil was made by man or Satan. It was simple that way. But I couldn't believe in Satan...
...parliament, Ranier Barzel, 48, had to fend off steady criticism from both his Social Democratic Party foes and his colleagues within the alliance of the Christian Democratic Union and Bavaria's Christian Social Union. He has been assailed as an ambitious opportunist with an all too obvious thirst for power and condemned for his irritating, seemingly insincere political style. As one S.D.P. leader put it: "After every 5,000 words, he has to have his oil changed...