Word: greater
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Dates: during 1980-1980
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...alternative policy is to increase the emphasis on raising the efficiency with which we use energy--in other words, place greater stress on conservation measures in addition to higher energy prices. Police would mean instituting very substantial financial incentives to encourage individuals and businesses to installing home insulation, storm windows and more energy efficient equipment, as well as investing in solar energy installations...
Right now, Congress would be willing to move much faster toward emphasizing greater energy efficiency if it received stronger leadership in this area from the White House. Even though President Carter has emphasized the importance of conservation, conservation programs were sidetracked because of the massive synthetic fuel program that Carter proposed in mid-1979. To the president's credit, however, he did make a tough, but very desirable, policy decision to decontrol oil prices...
Such talk is terrifying in part because the Soviet Union already feels itself sufficiently threatened from within and without. It has become a more dangerous adversary than it would under conditions of free trade under most-favored-nation status and greater American willingness to recognize that we must live on the same planet with this major nuclear power as they must live with us. Hence, I have opposed the human rights doctrine of President Jimmy Carter form the very outset despite my full recognition of the terrible conditions of life in the Soviet Union, though far less terrible than...