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There may be several good lessons in all this. Having a clearly defined goal is shown again to be the core of successful statecraft. Being consistent is another vital ingredient. Having help from home does wonders too. The news that the U.S. had made more progress in oil conservation than any of the other nations deepened the impact of Carter's words on everyone. There is little question that at last the President moved with some confidence and understanding among the other leaders...
...that practice. Let's trade a little, Mr. Carter. Stop building the MX missile, and start apologizing to Iran. Maybe pass the ERA. And perhaps the Supreme Court, after a brief rereading of the Constitution, might overturn last week's abortion ruling. All I ask is a little progress, and I'll be first in line at the post office...
About 99 million vacationers will visit the 201 U.S. national parks this year. They will bring with them a love of nature and a sense of wonder at the beauty that has been preserved against the onrush of progress. They will also bring with them thousands of cans of spray paint and the lust to desecrate...
This gloomy scenario is not the prognosis of some latter-day Spengler but of Walter Levy, 69, perhaps the world's best-known independent oil consultant. Warns Levy in the current issue of Foreign Affairs: "A series of future emergencies centering around oil will set back world progress for many, many years...
...Torrance is a man who has always allowed his drinking and his temper to overwhelm his reason, a man who sets his own roadblocks and then tries to run them in a battered Volkswagen. He stands as a crazy metaphor for the world in Kubrick's eyes: the rational progress we make always seems to be a step behind the torture we inflict on the earth and the nuclear apocalypse we plan for. In the end, we will be limping after the future, bloody ax in hand, howling for one more breath of life...