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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...second time in a decade, energy scare stories have become the stuff of headlines: motorists who confront the prospect of a summer of gasoline shortages at $1 per gal.; homeowners who have visions of dollar bills fluttering up the chimney every time the oil burner in the basement trips on. Angry and resentful, people are blaming the one institution that not only grows richer every time there is an oil squeeze, but is as close at hand as the nearest service station: the $360 billion-a-year U.S. oil industry...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Inside the Big Oil Game | 5/7/1979 | See Source »

...Atomic Scare...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Letters, Apr. 30, 1979 | 4/30/1979 | See Source »

...nuclear scare fairly well demonstrated that the installation was able to deal with malfunction, and bolsters my confidence in nuclear energy...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Letters, Apr. 30, 1979 | 4/30/1979 | See Source »

...above scenario depends, of course, on Harvard's ability to get by its remaining Ivy opponents (especially Princeton this Saturday), which might not be all that easy a task in light of the brief scare provided by the Elis. The Crimson started things off reasonably well when studly freshman attackman Norman Forbush hit his brother Bill for a goal in the first minute of play, and co-captain Jamie Egasti made it 2-0 a few minutes later with his tenth tally of the year. But before the Crimson could get any ideas about cooling out on a spring Saturday...

Author: By Robert Grady, | Title: Laxmen Quickstick Elis, 13-9; Crimson Raises Record to 7-2 | 4/23/1979 | See Source »

There did not appear to be any such problems for the J.V. except for its poor start, as it came back from the scare in Philadelphia to win big, like J.V. lights are supposed to Captain and J.V. six seat Jeff Cooley felt that the crew's smooth settle was the "crucial thing...

Author: By Daniel Gil, | Title: Lights Sweep in Biglin Over Dartmouth, MIT | 4/23/1979 | See Source »

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