Word: washings
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...well-prepared winter visitor brings long Johns and sweaters. In summer he comes with short-sleeved wash-and-dry shirts. There are no neckties in China. The climate in summer is a sauna bath; almost everything worth seeing requires climbing. A must in any season is Lomotil or another anti-diarrhetic, and throat lozenges, to combat the dust and coal smoke in the air. The F.F. must be prepared in advance for the virtual or entire absence of: air conditioning, ice water, ice cubes, ice cream, poached eggs, hamburgers, French fries, lamb chops, orange juice, cocktails, nightclubs, good grape wine...
...Henry M. Jackson (D-Wash.), chairman of the Senate Energy Committee, said yesterday the compromise "will provide the incentives for increased production," thereby enabling the United States to ease its heavy dependence on imported...
Unfortunately, the arguments don't seem to wash. Gas deregulation will have many effects, but supplying Americans with a steady supply of reasonably-priced energy will not be one of them. For one thing, opponents of the bill argue, higher gas prices will actually increase our dependence on foreign energy imports by encouraging consumers to switch from gas to oil. And the burden borne by consumers who stick with gas will be tremendous: James Flug, head of a Washington-based consumer group called Energy Action, estimates that the bill will add $35 to $55 billion overall to the national energy...
...PRESIDENT should have nothing to worry about, since arm-twisting by Byrd and Sen. Henry M. Jackson (D-Wash.), floor leader of the bill, have beaten back efforts to kill it by a filibuster. For a time, it looked as though deregulation might be defeated by a coalition of consumer states, led by Sen. Howard R. Metzenbaum (D-Ohio) and Sen. James Abourezk (D-S.D.), and joined by right-wingers like Sen. Clifford Hansen (D-Wyo.) who want total deregulation or none at all. But eventually administration supporters garnered enough votes to invoke cloture and kill the kind...
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