Word: used
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...their driving. Gasoline inventories in early May were not quite 7% below a year earlier, and production was running 3.6% behind 1978. That would be enough to produce a shortage, but one that would be quite manageable with a bit more car pooling, slightly shorter vacation drives, somewhat more use of public transportation...
...second home-a castle." Sociologist Wayne Youngquist of Marquette University agrees: "The car is America's magic carpet, and it gives people freedom and autonomy-it's their little box where they have control over their environment. There is tremendous resistance to anything that threatens the use...
...other factors aggravate the gasoline situation. One is that antipollution regulations require all cars built in the 1975 model year or later to use unleaded gas. A refinery needs 5% to 10% more crude to turn out a gallon of leadfree as opposed to regular gas. More important, stocks of heating oil have dropped dangerously (4.6% below the "minimum acceptable level" for May). Refineries would ordinarily be starting all-out production of gasoline now, to supply the summer driving surge, but the Carter Administration is urging them instead to switch as much output as possible to heating oil, in order...
...last working day of the Johnson Administration in January 1969, the Justice Department filed suit against International Business Machines, accusing it of monopolizing the "general purpose" computer business. Specifically, IBM was charged with trying to force customers to buy entire IBM systems for commercial use, and with keeping competitors out of the market. A decade later U.S. vs. IBM is still droning on, a costly monument to the law's delay. The frustrating case, Yale Professor Robert Bork told TIME'S conference, is the antitrust division's "Viet Nam." Thomas Barr, the Cravath, Swaine & Moore attorney...
...three years after its complaint was filed, Barr recounted, the Government did almost nothing. Pretrial "discovery," which allows lawyers to search for facts and find out what evidence the other side plans to use, did not begin until 1972. For the next two years, each side deluged the other with paper, 30 million pages worth. After several delays, the trial began in 1975 in U.S. District Court in Manhattan. It took the Government almost three years to present its case; one witness alone testified for 78 days...