Word: nationally
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...empty chairs do not faze Larry Pressler, 37, the smiling Senator from Humboldt, S. Dak. He launches into his pitch as if the room were overflowing. He is running for the Republican presidential nomination, he says, because the other candidates have not been offering specific solutions to the nation's problems. One of his own solutions is the increased use of alcohol as a gasoline supplement...
...quixotic quest of Larry Pressler has not yet gripped the nation. He has raised $35,000 compared, say, with John Connally's approximately $8 million. This leaves him well short of the total of $100,000 from 20 states he will need to get federal matching funds. "I do not seem to send the blood of my countrymen rushing to their heads nor their hands rushing toward their checkbooks," he confesses...
Most outlandish and un-American of all?and disturbing to those who believe that growth in energy use is a necessary element in the improvement of society's well-being?conservation, however limited, is beginning to be a hopeful factor in the nation's energy calculations. To what degree the flammable situation in the Middle East, the world's largest oil- producing region, plays a part remains uncertain. Price is a key factor and it keeps going up. Administration officials are confident that heating-oil supplies are sufficient to tide the nation through the winter, despite the U.S. declaration...
Some of the cracks that must be plugged as the nation tries to keep warm are in the structure of the society itself. The poor and the old living on fixed incomes can muster no defense against rising heating bills. Stella Falco, 74, a white-haired widow who lives in a $50-a-month tenement in Providence, is tired and bitter. After five decades of working in textile mills, she receives $3,384 a year from Social Security as well as a small pension. A quarter of her income will go for heat; price increases mean a thinning...
...system under stress, however, solutions sometimes create problems. Massachusetts has become the first state in the nation to ban urea formaldehyde foam, the largest selling type of blown insulation. Public Health Commissioner Alfred Frechette says that "we find there is significant correlation between the foam insulation and such formaldehyde-linked illnesses as respiratory difficulties, eye and skin irritations, headaches, vomiting and severe irritation to the mucous membranes." Massachusetts estimates that some 7,000 houses in the state?and many more across the country?are insulated with formaldehyde. The cost of removing the stuff, where it can be removed, might...