Middle- and Long-term Energy Policies and Alternatives: Hearings Before the Subcommittee on Energy and Power of the Committee on Interstate and Foreign Commerce, House of Representatives, Ninety-fourth Congress, Second Session ....

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Página 419 - That coarseness and strength combined with acuteness and inquisitiveness; that practical, inventive turn of mind, quick to find expedients; that masterful grasp of material things, lacking in the artistic but powerful to effect great ends ; that restless, nervous energy;* that dominant individualism, working for good and for evil, and withal that buoyancy and exuberance which comes with freedom — these are traits of the frontier, or traits called out elsewhere because of the existence of the frontier.
Página 212 - air and water quality standards" shall mean respectively the quality standards and related plans of implementation, including emission standards, adopted pursuant to the Clean Air Act, as amended, and the Federal Water Pollution Control Act, as amended, or as prescribed pursuant to section 4(b) of this order. (e) The term "performance specifications...
Página 179 - Exit is that portion of a means of egress which is separated from all other spaces of the building or structure by construction or equipment as required in this subpart to • Federal Register, vol. 37, no. 202 (October 18, 1972), p. 22105. 8 Ibid., p. 22106. •Ibid., p. 22118. 46 provide a protected way of travel to the exit discharge.
Página 414 - The Solar Energy Research, Development and Demonstration Act of 1974 (PL 93-473).
Página 179 - A means of egress is a continuous and unobstructed way of exit travel from any point in a building or structure to a public way and consists of three separate and distinct parts: (a) the way of exit access, (b) the exit, and (c) the way of exit discharge. A means of egress...
Página 85 - Assume that somewhere in the world a new opportunity for the use of some raw material, say tin, has arisen, or that one of the sources of supply of tin has been eliminated. It does not matter for our purpose — and it is very significant that it does not matter — which of these two causes has made tin more scarce. All that the users of tin need to know is that some of the tin they used to consume is now more profitably employed elsewhere, and that in consequence they must economize tin.
Página 85 - NATIONAL DEFENSE INTERNATIONAL AFFAIRS GENERAL SCIENCE. SPACE. AND TECHNOLOGY ENERGY NATURAL RESOURCES AND ENVIRONMENT AGRICULTURE COMMERCE AND HOUSING CREDIT TRANSPORTATION COMMUNITY AND REGIONAL DEVELOPMENT EDUCATION. TRAINING. EMPLOYMENT AND SOCIAL SERVICES HEALTH INCOME SECURITY VETERANS...
Página 140 - The role of government just considered is to do something that the market cannot do for itself, namely, to determine, arbitrate, and enforce the rules of the game. We may also want to do through government some things that might conceivably be done through the market but that technical or similar conditions render it difficult to do in that way. These all reduce to cases in which strictly voluntary exchange is either exceedingly costly or practically impossible. There are two general classes of such...
Página 419 - English, with an unmistakable muscular tension, cheery selfconfidence and habitual challenge in the voice and eyes, so it seems to neutralise every intellectual element, however tough and alien it may be, and to fuse it in the native good-will, complacency, thoughtlessness, and optimism.
Página 85 - ... the effect will rapidly spread throughout the whole economic system and influence not only all the uses of tin, but also those of its substitutes and the substitutes of these substitutes, the supply of all...

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