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Using earnings from three hit singles, the Eagles repaid their debt, then established their reputation with their second album, Desperado. The songs drew an analogy between Western outlaws and rock performers, two groups linked by loneliness, excess and self-destruction. The next album, On the Border, expanded the same themes. Using Parsons' death and James Dean's career as springboards, the Eagles touched upon the reveries of millions of teenagers and demiadults...
...House bill is a massive attempt by Democrats to throw the full weight of the U.S. Government against the price-setting power of OPEC and thus roll back the price of petroleum. It would reduce the price of "new" domestic crude (oil in excess of what was produced in 1972) from its present $13 per bbl. to $7.50. Producers in especially high-cost drilling areas, like offshore, would be allowed to charge $8.50 per bbl. The price of "old" domestic crude, which is now frozen at $5.25 per bbl., would be allowed to rise to $7.50 also-but only over...
...clause is intended to protect the workers in the event of an energy-saving extension of the two-week Christmas recess, during which employees normally take their vacations. In such a case the workers would receive full-time pay for any forced layoff time in excess of the two week recess...
However they improve their wind-driven generators, designers face a new problem. Whenever the wind died down, farmers in the 1930s drew electric current from old-fashioned storage batteries charged by their windmills. The bigger windmills of the future will require far greater storage capacity. One possibility: excess power produced on windy days could be used to pump water uphill into storage reservoirs; when the wind stops, the water could be allowed to cascade down through hydraulic turbines. Similarly, the energy from flywheels, spun up to a high speed when windmills are working, could be used to run electrical generators...
...have a lot of excess capacity and unemployment, and it will take a long time to cure that...