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Usually, the tax remedy allows legislators to let a business have its way, and save their faces at the same time. The common ploy didn't work this time. Ergo, the public sits in on the birth of the guaranteed loan...
...that the fossil fuel honeymoon is just about over, the big power companies know they must find another way. But because of their orientation, they concentrate their search for alternatives on energy sources that will produce massive amounts of power in the centralized, technology-intensive, meterable mold already established. Ergo, the commitment to nuclear technology...
...primary; if a Democrat won, he likewise happened to have finished first in New Hampshire. And then there were those New Hampshire debacles that, given a little hindsight and a lot of state pride, seemed significant: Harry Truman in 1952, George Romney in 1968 and Ed Muskie in 1972. Ergo. New Hampshire obviously was a prize worth trudging through the snow for. In 1975, a regional politican named Jimmy decided to jump the gun and trudge twice-that year and in the primary and presidential election year of 1976. When voters eventually became aware that Jimmy's last name...
...assumption here is that the best medicine for our nation--and our world--is economic growth. As capitalism has become more firmly rooted in our way of life, the only object of our economy is continued and unlimited economic growth. This inevitably means more use of natural resources (ergo more waste), and better technology to exploit those resources...
...Fuller, now 81, whose brilliantly engineered structures were used as radar domes on the arctic DEW line after World War II, to demonstrate conclusively that for the material used they are the strongest and most efficient way to enclose space. Moreover, they cover maximum volume with minimum surface area. Ergo, it takes less energy to heat or cool a spherical structure than the rectilinear box of traditional architecture and consumer preference. Since nearly all dome homes have big skylights, lighting costs are also lower...