h. D. t. In the 1970s, the world was in energy crisis (危机). Refrigerators use too much energy. So people began to think of ways to improve it. At last a kind of new refrigerators was made. They use very little energy, but they’re too expensive. They cost twice or three...
During the energy crisis of the 1970s, we tried permanent Daylight Saving Time again in the winter of 1973-1974. The idea again was to conserve fuel. It was a popular move at the time when President Richard Nixon signed the l...
The article presents arguments of several historians on the debate whether the crisis and decline of the 1970's in British post war history is exaggerated or simplistic. Durham University history lecturer Lawrence Black acknowledged the sense of crisis at that time, with moral panics about punks, ...
For cost-push inflation to occur, demand for goods must be static orinelastic. That means demand must remain constant while the supply of goods and services decreases. An example of cost-push inflation is the oil crisis of the 1970s. The price of oil was increased byOPECcountries while dema...
We would still "know" how to avoid doing something asked of us and how to get someone to agree with us; we would still "know" when someone was angry and when someone was pleased. One could even offer sensible explanations for the "whys" of much of the self's behavior. and feeling....
Perhaps Douglas Rushkoff was right, with all futures collapsing into a chaotic present. After all, how can you engage people into thinking about unfamiliar futures when the recent past contains a reality TV star becoming the U.S. president, the UK waving goodbye to its European cousins, a vir...
average of $50 in the 1970s to an average of $125 from 1979 through 1982 (2024 dollars). Inflation fueled by these prices was a significant part of the economic crisis Reagan inherited in 1981. The recovery had as much to do with falling oil prices as it did with...
The initial emphasis in this literature was on resilience as an overall goal and strategy. When doubts about resilience started to emerge, adaptation entered the scene. In response to worries that adaptation does not always enable societies to cope with climate change, transformation has become the...
Overseeing the end of this unstable decade, Jimmy Carter's presidency certainly had no shortage of challenges.Answer and Explanation: Carter was highly capable in controlling his image at home, due to his close and friendly relationship with the Press, which was experiencing a high......
That was 9 years after the end of the war. Photographs I saw in Life magazine and elsewhere (https://www.magnumphotos.com/newsroom/society/david-seymour-children-of-europe/) in the late 1950s and early 1960s depicted war refugees, holocaust survivors, and US conscientious objectors to ...