Word: zeros
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...than Ford has asked. But they fear that the President's energy proposals would push prices .so high as to destroy the purchasing power that the tax reductions would create. Democratic Senator Adlai Stevenson III of Illinois estimates the chances of Ford's energy program getting through Congress as "zero...
...continuing to meet the $10.80 price, would be able to reduce imports from around 6 million bbl. a day now, to zero by 1985 and actually export a domestic-oil surplus of 1.35 million bbl. a day. The assumption is that high prices would spur a 114% rise in U.S. oil production over a decade while depressing consumption, thus enabling the U.S. to stop importing oil altogether. In this area, the OECD researchers are even more optimistic than the Federal Energy Administration; in its Project Independence Blueprint published last fall, the FEA foresaw imports still hovering at 3.5 million...
...population explosion does not directly threaten Russia, Japan, Europe, Australia, Canada or the United States, the "rich nations." As they industrialized they broke the fertility barrier. Most of them are growing less than one per cent a year, and can expect to reach zero population growth within a generation or two. At worst population pressure will cause job and housing shortages. For the rest of the world, however, population growth is a problem on an entirely different scale. They are growing on average two and a half per cent a year, which works out to twelve times a century...
...three months since South Boston High became the focal point of Boston's bitter school-desegregation battle, a majority of the white students and many of the newly enrolled blacks have been boycotting the school. Last week attendance dropped to zero when South Boston High and seven other Boston public schools were closed after a new outbreak of racial violence. During a shoving match outside a South Boston High classroom, Michael Faith, 18, a white student from South Boston, was stabbed. Armed policemen assigned to patrol the troubled corridors arrested James White, 18, a black student from Roxbury. Faith...
...Ecology has organized drives to clean up beaches, cities, rivers and mountaintops. To prepare Spokane for Expo '74, for example, 78,000 residents took part in a three-phase litter pickup project that collected 500 tons of trash. The basic theme is pounded home by posters demanding ZERO LITTER, bumper stickers reading LITTER is NO ACCIDENT and even T shirts urging Washingtonians to STOP THE LITTER CRITTER...