Word: unpopular
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...switch to alternative fuels. Today's crisis may mean that needed reforms will get fresh attentions and new support. "Congress now realizes the seriousness ot the situation," says Energy Secretary James Schlesinger. " It is necessary to take advantage of short-term emergencies to sell the need for unpopular measures...
Just about the most unpopular idea was Jimmy Carter's thwarted proposal to impose a new tax on domestic crude oil that would sharply raise the retail price. U.S. prices are low by world standards; a gallon of regular gas that sells in New York City for 78? costs $1.55 in Tel Aviv, $1.83 in Bonn and $2.09 in Paris. Economists, bankers and independent study groups like the Trilateral Commission agree that substantially higher prices would drive home the reality of the energy crisis and the need to save. For that to occur prices would have to rise drastically...
...Another unpopular measure to spare energy would be to moderate some antipollution regulations. The American Petroleum Institute estimates that the extra crude required to make unleaded gas for new cars with catalytic converters amounts to 140,000 bbl. per day, and the Department of Energy figures that yet another 500,000 bbl. will be added to daily demand if the next legally mandated reduction in gasoline additives goes through as scheduled in October...
...scene, Khomeini faces far tougher tasks than rousing the people to fury against an unpopular autocrat. The Ayatullah has announced that he will set up a new revolutionary council for Iran. In so doing he risks a coup by an army whose generals, if not its soldiers, remain loyal to the Shah. He must pick up the numerous strands of opposition, united only in reverence for him and hatred of the monarch, and hold them together long enough to form a functioning government. It is a lot to expect from a spiritual leader wise in Koranic lore but woefully unskilled...
...that henceforth they would settle for nothing less than "a presence in the government"-meaning seats in a future Cabinet. Berlinguer's position was that he had earned few benefits from a tacit collaboration with the Christian Democrats. Indeed, the Communists complained that they had been blamed for unpopular government decisions without having gained any real power...