Word: presentable
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Dates: during 1980-1980
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Douglas said at the time of his retirement that his only hope was that he had left the constitutional watercourse he travelled unpolluted and pristine. In a way few in the court's conservative past or present ever matched, Douglas did just that...
...Deputy Secretary of State Warren Christopher, the Administration program called for about "5 million tons of corn" to be used this year to make "over 500 million gal." of ethanol. That would be enough to displace a little more than one day's worth of oil imports. The present annual U.S. alcohol distilling capacity is only about 80 million gal. and nowhere near enough to consume 5 million tons of corn a year...
...future meets the present in Denver...
...successful Broadway producer (The Great Sebastians with Lunt and Fontanne) before he moved west in the '60s, is already satisfied with Denver's response. "I thought I was building for the future," he says. "The audiences made me realize I was building for the present...
...forecasters. Professional analysts, enamored of their computers and software and printouts, tend to mutter and mumble about technical imperfections in their still young methodology. Many admit that they erred by simply extrapolating from the trends that seemed evident as the '60s decade ended. Translation: they predicted that the present would persist into the future. Says Boris Pushkarev, vice president of New York's Regional Plan Association: "It's easy to continue trend lines. It's hard to predict changes in trends." Translation: it is hard to know what is going to happen. The '70s were...