Word: cleans
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...leadership is unlikely to be candid about the extent of the emergency. Says Glasgow University's Alec Nove, one of the West's ranking experts on Soviet economic affairs: "If they were prepared to come clean, they would say, 'Look, brothers and sisters, we're in a mess this year. We have a belt-tightening plan. Let's all pull together.' Instead they will talk mainly about achievements." Despite the brave talk, statistics released last December on the 1971-75 and the 1976-80 five-year plans indicate that there are genuine hardships ahead...
...AMAX: "Coal mines are not water spigots. You don't just open a tap and turn them on." To justify the expense, coal men need a guaranteed market-and for that potential buyers have to have some assurance that the fuel can be burned in compliance with clean-air laws...
...trouble has been intensified by conflicting Government views of the national interest. President Ford puts primary emphasis on developing plentiful, inexpensive domestic energy to power the U.S. economy. Congress mainly stresses protection of the environment. Coal offers no easy compromise: it is extremely difficult to make both cheap and clean...
...evacuation of the hospitals is more difficult to explain. Phnom Penh's hospitals had become grossly over-crowded pest-houses by mid-April; after the evacuation, the Communists did clean them and resume their operation with Cambodian doctors. The Khmer Rouge had developed a system of rudimentary clinics and hospitals in the countryside; evacuees may have gone to these. Whether or not the Khmer Rouge had won in April or not, the sick would have had a hard time, due to the general shortage of medicine and supplies for both sides in the civil...
...want to speak particularly of your theory of clean manuscripts, and spelling as correct as a collegiate stenographer, and every nasty little comma in its place. I have no interest in the printed word. I would continue to write if there were no writing and no print. I put my words down to a matteg of memory. They are more to be spoken than to be read. I have the instincts of a minstrel rather than those of a scrivener...