Word: conservationism
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Best Mix. But not much room for compromise is visible; the White House and the Democratic congressional majorities differ deeply not just on details but in their philosophical approach to the problem of holding down imports and making the U.S. less dependent on foreign crude. The President would like to...
Orderly Growth. In February, the limit to Rome's patience was apparently reached. Goaded by Italia Nostra, a national conservation organization, a court ordered utility companies not to supply new building sites with water, electricity or gas unless the contractor produced a legal construction permit. In March, the city...
It might have remained a thing of beauty and a toy forever. But the agent of its obscurity was also the cause of its revival. For too long, the combustion engine befouled the atmosphere and lulled Americans into a dangerous sloth. But today, the new conservation and the high incidence...
His main objection, he told a dozen freshmen in the Union, was that the administration's drive for American energy independence is "just going pell-mell forward, without mentioning conservation."
He had come in with a towering reputation that he acquired almost overnight. A millionaire Wall Street bond trader for the firm of Salomon Bros., Simon entered Government in December 1972 as Treasury's No. 2 man. At the height of the Arab oil embargo in December 1973, President...