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OUTDOOR SIGNS: One measuring 10 ft. by 20 ft. and burning seven hours a day would consume $76.07 of electricity a year, making turning it off a genuine contribution to energy thrift...
...some old values. "We have become literally and figuratively fat," says William C. Westmoreland, the general who commanded U.S. forces in Viet Nam and now directs economic development for South Carolina. "Perhaps the crisis will bring us back to some of the virtues that made this country great, like thrift and the belief that waste is sinful." Says Sylvia Lavietes, a Manhattan social worker: "At first I was really depressed about the energy crisis, but now I think it's a riot. It's a real challenge. As a child I sometimes wondered what it would have been...
There was a time when Poor Richard's Almanac was strictly for children. No longer. The apostle of thrift now seems the right philosopher for modern America. One can almost see Ben peering over his bifocals and croaking, "I told...
...literally in its citizens' hands - hands that rest upon ignition keys, electric switches, purses and wallets. How will America's citizens react? They could continue to do what they have always done: spend and damn the consequences. Or they could acknowledge that the forgotten virtue of thrift, as Ben Franklin preached, is not against the American grain but deep within...
...Smith's Calvary Chapel in Costa Mesa, which has six touring bands, had to put up a tent for the overflow crowds, then an auditorium that holds 2,000. The Tony and Susan Alamo Christian Foundation near Saugus has bought a 160-acre farm, a gas station, a thrift shop and a motel. Kent Philpott s ministry north of San Francisco runs a construction business and several farms, plus rehabilitation centers, a counseling center and a bookstore...