Word: assertion
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...fuels will make the installation price of solar heating an extremely attractive investment to homeowners, yielding as much as 17% annually. Although the Harvard researchers propose more than $1 billion in Government subsidies for research into high-technology solar devices, such as sun-deflecting satellites and photovoltaic cells, they assert that "new technology is not required to realize solar's potential...
This was the post-Camp David Jimmy Carter, a President eager to assert his leadership and to lash out at critics, of whom, a coast-to-coast survey by TIME bureau chiefs showed, there were a formidable number. The subject of his opening cannonade was the oil industry's effort to get Congress to reduce the windfall profits tax, which Carter hopes to use to finance a multibillion-dollar energy program. Said Carter: "There will be a massive struggle to gut the windfall profits tax. I want to serve notice tonight that I will do everything in my power...
...doubt that the companies have reaped a bonanza from the 60% runup in OPEC prices since January. For example, about 30% of U.S.-produced oil is, in effect, uncontrolled When world oil prices go up, the price of this uncontrolled crude rises right along them. But the companies assert that most of their profits come from operations overseas, where no price restrictions apply...
...that verbal heat last week was over one of the President's more modest steps to conserve energy: his proclamation requiring most public and commercial buildings in the nation to be cooled to no lower than 78° F this summer. Although health experts assert that such a temperature is within an acceptable human "comfort range," the moaning over this minor inconvenience was widespread...
...only 30 million had tuned in for his fourth, last April That was scarcely the trouble Sunday night. However unorthodox his method Carter had seized the nation's attention He and his aides knew he had taken a gigantic gamble. If he failed to capitalize on this chance to assert his leadership, he would not get many more...