Word: broadly
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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Indeed, Carter has been slow to use the Iran situation as a way to mobilize the country for his energy programs. But last week he was considering the imposition of a broad series of compulsory conservation measures, ranging from odd-even rationing to no-driving days to increased gasoline taxes...
...need to elect a President in the prime of life who has broad national and international experience," says the candidate. "I have had eight years of experience in agriculture, in keeping profit-and-loss records on livestock." He is also well educated: he is a Rhodes scholar and holds a master's degree in public administration and a law degree from Harvard...
...Ricci firm, openly concedes that his firm could not exist without its worldwide perfume sales. Says he: "It is very difficult to make money out of clothes, and impossible out of haute couture. "High sales volume cannot be achieved with clothes, since no one style can ever have really broad appeal. Perfumes, by contrast, are bought everywhere, in all seasons and by all kinds of people, from secretaries to socialites. L'Air du Temps and other fragrances account for 75% of Nina Ricci's revenue. Several fashion bastions, among them Schiaparelli, Chanel and Paco Rabanne, are said...
Since late last year, "democracy wall," along Peking's broad Chang An Avenue, represented a unique and hopeful experiment in China's tightly controlled society. It was a place where everyone from political critics to whimsical poets could paste up wall posters, which are protected by China's 1978 constitution. Thousands of people sometimes came to the wall to read the patchwork quilt of personal grievances, sharply worded essays demanding more freedom, and short stories and poems. Last week the Municipal Revolutionary Committee of Peking, clearly acting at the direction of the Chinese Communist Party, issued...
Gasoline consumption is the root cause of the nation's petro-woes, and any move to curtail it substantially would have broad and deep economic consequences. Though rising prices and the slowing economy have cut gasoline use by 4.7% this year, the fuel still accounts for just under 40% of the 18 million bbl. of oil that the U.S. burns each day. The Administration estimates that an immediate 50? boost in the cost of gasoline, which now sells at an average for all grades of $1.04 per gal., would cut consumption by 7%, the equivalent of about...