Word: waits
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...most Californians were too busy trying to beat the gas lines to worry about whether Carter deserved praise or censure. Some drivers offered station owners bribes of $10 to $20 for a full tank; others bought bootlegged gasoline for $6 per gal. or hired people to wait in line for them at $3.50 an hour. Johnny Rodgers, a professional football player, told a reporter that he got so impatient at waiting in his Rolls-Royce for gas that he bought the service station. Said he: "I bought it for my friends' convenience...
...fall, when the long stalled Strategic Arms Limitation Talks in Geneva showed promise. TIME Diplomatic Correspondent Strobe Talbott raced to synthesize five years of notes - replete with diplomatic circumlocutions and the technical jargon of weaponry - into a lucid history of SALT. But Christmas came late, and history had to wait. Only last week, when Secretary of State Cyrus Vance and Soviet Ambassador Anatoli Dobrynin reached a general agreement on the proposed treaty, could Talbott complete his project. Talbott's narrative, part of this week's 15-page Special Report on SALT, is accompanied by Associate Editor Burton Pines...
Demonstrations have virtually ceased while the bewildered students anxiously wait, along with the rest of the world, to see what will happen next in their turbulent homeland. The uncertain Bazargan government, at odds with Iran's revolutionary committees and subject to the Delphic dictates of the Ayatullah Khomeini, is not exactly what the youths had in mind when they called for a new regime...
...rail system, because: (1) with sufficient traffic, railroads are the most fuel-efficient form of transportation; and (2) railroads can and should be electrified (as in Europe) because electricity can be generated by almost any fuel. It will take years to develop such a system, and we can not wait until the oil is gone to begin...
...near to reaching that point? There is no way of telling since the evidence is not at all tangible or quantifiable. It seems as if the only hope of verifying the model is to wait for a nuclear disaster to occur and then analyze the effects with hindsight. If we are truly at a "critical turning point" as the authors claim, then it should be apparent very soon whether we are to have many power plants or none...