Word: needed
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Dates: during 1980-1980
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...Unless the Iraqis and Iranians can pump and export some oil, the war will end very soon. They need the revenues...
...protecting us. When you send your airplanes, you are defending your own interests. If anything happens to the oilfields of Saudi Arabia, your economy will be in ruins. Our defense should be strengthened, and we expect the U.S. to give us the help we need...
...stands. He stopped insisting that the nation could solve its fuel problems in five years, and he began to talk about disciplining, rather than disbanding the Department of Energy. His criticism of the $227 billion windfall profits tax on oil companies became tempered after aides realized that he would need those tax revenues if he wanted to cut personal income taxes, accelerate business depreciation and increase defense spending. The political and economic trade-offs of presidential policymaking are about to become an important factor in energy policy...
...come to rely too heavily on coal, causing possible irreversible damage to the world's environment. Concludes George W. Cunningham, an Assistant Secretary of Energy: "We can survive without nuclear energy, but we cannot have a healthy, growing economy and an improved standard of living for those who need...
...south wall of the 24-story edifice looks like an upside-down staircase: each floor overhangs the one below, so that the top of the building sticks out 23 ft. farther than the bottom. This unusual construction helps block out sunlight on steamy summer afternoons, thus reducing the need for air conditioning. But during the winter, when the sun is lower in the southern sky, the warming rays will be able to shine into offices and provide natural heating...