Word: use
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...dozens of arbitrary methods that governments use to puff up the value of imports to calculate customs duties, thus pricing the goods out of their domestic markets...
...years to the cartel-set world level, which already stands at a minimum of $14.55 and is certain to climb still higher. The oil companies would get an extra $6.5 billion in earnings annually from decontrol, but about half of the money would be taxed away. The Government would use much of the tax revenues to help industry shoulder the daunting costs of projects aimed at extracting oil from shale rock and coal, and to bankroll substantially increased research into solar energy...
LICHTBLAU: We should use our surplus of natural gas to fuel industrial plants and utilities. Coal-powered electricity plants in the Midwest could export surplus electricity to the East and replace imported oil. One of our greatest errors was not to build up our strategic oil reserves. Had we done so, the Iranian cutback would have had less of an impact. We should move full speed ahead with the reserve plan now because there will be another crisis some time down the road...
ADELMAN: If the Administration wants to be taken seriously, it must tax the energy that it wants saved. It is a disservice to control prices because you feed bum dope to consumers. When prices go up, people will use less. Seven cents more for gasoline will not make much difference, but the knowledge that prices are going to keep rising will change habits...
...Association meets openly every Wednesday night to hear speeches and play readings, and has thrown parties that attracted as many as 300 students from the area. At Harvard Law School, gays have acquired considerable clout; the school now will not allow any law firms that discriminate against homosexuals to use its placement service for employment interviews. But gay students at Harvard Business School still keep their homosexuality a deep secret for fear that it will hurt their employment prospects with major corporations when they graduate. The chairwoman of the Radcliffe Lesbians Association asks that her name not be printed...