Word: underground
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...President to declare a national fuel emergency if U.S. demand exceeds supply by 5% or more. The bill calls for many feasible conservation measures. Domestic wells would be required to pump oil faster than their "maximum efficient rates," a move that would risk damaging the oilfields by reducing the underground pressure. Electric utilities that could do so would have to convert from burning oil to coal-at the cost of more pollution. Highway speed limits would be lowered to 50 m.p.h.; motorists would be required to get regular engine tune-ups and would be encouraged to form car pools...
...demonstrations against the war in 1963, helped lead Wisconsin's Student Non-Violent Coordinating Committee, went to law school and then got himself elected to the city council, where he scandalized his colleagues by releasing the names and photographs of the city's narcs to Madison's student and underground press...
...aged men are in the army that the city seems populated solely by old men, women and children. Many small businesses are shuttered, while hotels in Holy Land sites are nearly empty or closed altogether. Only two of Jerusalem's movie theaters have remained open-and both are underground. Bus schedules have been drastically reduced and construction has nearly halted, as able-bodied workmen have left for their reserve units. Swimming at Israel's beaches has been banned because of a lack of lifeguards. Universities have postponed exams, and a maternity hospital in the city has cut post...
...Harvard Cooperative Society asked Cambridge in February 1965 to close Palmer St. and turn it into a pedestrian mall. Landscape architects drew a plan calling for two small plazas, an underground parking garage for 200-300 cars, and a path through the First Congregational Church's graveyard as a shortcut to the Square...
...been more contemptuous of the Arabs' military capacity than this longtime protege of Israel's respected former Chief of Staff Haim Bar-Lev. Born in Yugoslavia, like Bar-Lev, Elazar, now 48, went to Israel in 1940, soon joined the Palmach, the strike force of the underground Zionist army, and fought in the 1948 war of independence. His military career advanced rapidly as he followed Bar-Lev from command to command until he succeeded him as Chief of Staff in 1971. Last April Elazar predicted, "I don't believe the Egyptian forces have the faintest chance...