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 . . . EMPIRE see "THE HUMAN RACE" for related links see "WAR & PEACE" for related links Great Britain ... has lost an Empire and not yet found a role. --Dean Acheson (18931971) American politician. Speech at the Military Academy, West Point, N.Y. [5 December 1962]. At the end of the war Britain was faced with three possible courses of action: to maintain her political domination in South-East Asia by force; to abandon her entire position in the area; or to come to an amicable settlement whereby both national aspirations and British interests and influence were safeguarded. We chose the last of these courses, and our policy in India, Pakistan, Ceylon and Burma has, in the event, proved to have been one of the major factors in ensuring that the countries of South-East Asia, if not yet actual allies in the struggle against Soviet communism, are at least looking to the West for support, rather than to Russia. The French and the Dutch have been slower to appreciate the inevitable march of events in Asia. --Cabinet paper [October 1949], in A.J. Stockwell (ed.) _Malaya_ pt. 2 [1995] pp.162-163. "What is your desire? Would you have a tale of the Caliph of Bagdad? Or from the siege of Troy? A reading from Aristophanes? From Firdausi? Or would you hear of far seas and lands unknown to the Byzantines? "Can there be such?" He lifted a supercilious eyebrow. "Byzantium is the center of the world!" "Ah...?" "You doubt it, vagabond?" "I was remembering Rome, Carthage, Babylon, Nineveh... each in its own time the center of the world, all ruins now." He was amused. "Do you imagine this city will be as those? You jest." "Had I asked in any of those cities, would anyone have believed they someday would lie in ruins? Each age is an age that is passing, and cities, my friend, are transitory things. Each is born from the dust; each matures, grows older, then it fades and dies. A passing traveler looks at a mound of sand and broken stones and asks 'What was here?' and his answer is only an echo or a wind drifting sand." --Louis L'Amour [Louis Dearborn LaMoore] (19081988) American author of Western fiction. _Walking Drum_ Were the countries [of Africa] ready for independence? Of course not. Nor was India, and the bloodshed that followed the grant of independence there was incomparably worse than anything that has happened since to any country. Yet the decision of the Attlee Government was the only realistic one. Equally we could not possibly have held by force to our territories in Africa. We could not, with an enormous force engaged, even continue to hold the small island of Cyprus. General de Gaulle could not contain Algeria. The march of men towards their freedom can be guided, but not halted. Of course there were risks in moving quickly. But the risks of moving slowly were far greater. --Iain Macleod (19131970) British Conservative Party politician and government minister. In _The Spectator_ [13 January 1964] p.127. Many of the Boers [the Dutch farmers living outside Cape Town] possess 200 or 300 oxen, 100, 150 or more cows, 2,000 to 3,000 sheep, 40 or 50 horses, 20, 30 or more bond slaves, and a large estate. Many an African Boer, therefore, would think twice about changing places with a German nobleman. --F. Mentzel _Life at the Cape in the mid-18th Century_ [1919] p. 129 The Mongol empire of the 13th and 14th centuries was the largest continuous land empire that has so far existed. At its greatest extent it stretched from Korea to Hungary, including, except for India and the southeast of the continent, most of Asia, as well as a good deal of eastern Europe. As a whole it lasted for well over a century, and parts of it survived for very much longer. It was merely one, albeit by far the most extensive, of a series of great steppe empires; and it should be seen in the context provided by its predecessors. The major difference between the Mongols and previous conquerors is that no other nomad empire had succeeded in holding both the Inner Asian steppe and the neighboring sedentary lands simultaneously. --David Morgan _The Mongols_ [1986] p.5 Nations and empires flourish and decay, By turns command, and in their turns obey. --Ovid [Publius Ovidius Naso] (43 B.C.18 A.D.) Roman poet. You Venetians, it is certain, are very wrong to disturb the peace of other states rather than to rest content with the most splendid state of Italy, which you already possess. If you knew how you are universally hated, your hair would stand on end ... do you believe that these powers in Italy, now in league together, are truly friends among themselves? Of course they are not, it is only necessity, and the fear which they feel of you and your power, that has bound them in this way ... You are alone, with all the world against you, not only in Italy but beyond the Alps too. Know then that your enemies do not sleep. Take good counsel, for, by God, you need Galeazzo Sforza. --Galeazzo Sforza (14441476) Duke of Milan. To Giovanni Gonnella, secretary of the Venetian republic, in M.J. Cohan and John Major {eds.} _History in Quotations_ [2004] p. 299. If the US is an empire it's a very odd one: Countries where it has troops such as Saudi Arabia, South Korea, and Germany suggest they are unhappy about that and the response is, 'OK," and an offer to leave. Nero and Napoleon would have been appalled. --R. James Woolsey (1941 ) Director of the CIA (19931995). "We Are All Jews" - I know why the sun never sets on the British Empire: God wouldn't trust an Englishman in the dark. --anon. ----- hegemony (noun) [hκ-'je-mκ-ni] The dominant influence or authority over others, especially among states and nations.   EMPLOYMENT . . see "WORK" for related links Lord Finchley tried to mend the Electric Light Himself. It struck him dead: And serve him right! It is the business of the wealthy man To give employment to the artisan. --Hilaire Belloc (18701953) British poet, essayist, historian, and novelist. "Lord Finchley" [1911] Salt Lake City was healthy an extremely healthy city. They declared that there was only one physician in the place and he was arrested every week regularly and held to answer under the vagrant act for having 'no visible means of support.' --Mark Twain [Samuel Langhorne Clemens] (18351910) American humorist, novelist, journalist, and river pilot. _Roughing It_ [1872] . . see "KINDNESS" for related links A sigh can shatter a castle in the air. --William R. Alger (18221905) American minister and writer. A pat on the back, though only a few vertebrae removed from a kick in the pants, is miles ahead in results. --Bennett Cerf (18981971) American author, humorist, and publisher. So I was getting into my car, and this bloke says to me 'Can you give me a lift?' I said 'Sure, you look great, the world's your oyster, go for it.' --Tommy Cooper (19211984) Welsh comedian and magician. Correction does much, but encouragement does more. Encouragement after censure is as the sun after a shower. --Johann Wolfgang von Goethe (17491832) German poet, novelist, and playwright. More hearts pine away in secret anguish for the want of kindness from those who should be their comforters than for any other calamity in life. --Edward Young (16831765) English poet. ----- hortatory [HOR-tuh-tor-ee], adjective: Marked by strong urging; serving to encourage or incite; as, "a hortatory speech." Ex.: "He later gave up the ministry in the conviction that he could reach thousands with his beguiling pen and only hundreds with his hortatory voice." --Carl Van Doren (1885-1950) American writer and educator, _The American Novel, 1789-1939_  ENDINGS . . see: "CONSEQUENCES" see: "LAST WORDS" see: "QUITTING" see "LIFE" for other related links This is a story about a man named Eddie and it begins at the end, with Eddie dying in the sun. It might seem strange to start a story with an ending. But all endings are also beginnings. We just don't know it at the time. --Mitch Albom (1958 ) American sportswriter, novelist and newspaper columnist. _The Five People You Meet in Heaven_ [2003], "The End" It ain't over till it's over. --Yogi Berra (1925 ) American baseball player and manager; elected to the Hall of Fame in 1972. The party's over, it's time to call it a day. --Betty Comden (1919 ) & Adolph Green (19152002) Lyricists and screenwriting duo. "The Party's Over" [1956 song] If well thou hast begun, go on foreright; It is the end that crowns us, not the fight. --Robert Herrick (15911674) English poet and clergyman. _Hesperides_ l. 309 All is well that ends well. --John Heywood (14971580) English playwright. _Proverbs_ [1546] A dead end street is a good place to turn around. --Naomi Judd [Diana Ellen Judd] (1946 ) American country music singer and songwriter. With the catching ends the pleasure of the chase. --Abraham Lincoln (18091865) American Republican statesman, President [18611865]. - In the actions of men . . . the end justifies the means. --Niccolς Machiavelli (14691527) Florentine statesman and political philosopher. _The Prince_ [written 1513] & see: The end must justifie the means. --Matthew Prior (16641721) English poet. _Hans Carvel_, l. 67 - The work, my friend, is peace. More than an end of this war an end to the beginnings of all wars. --Franklin D. Roosevelt (18821945) American Democratic statesman and President [19331945]. (Undelivered address for Jefferson Day, [13 April 1945] the day after Roosevelt died - ODTQ.) ----- dιnouement (noun) [de-nu-'moN] The final resolution and clarification of a plot following its climax; the final, climactic unraveling of a mystery or other complex situation. quietus [kwy-EE-tuhs], noun: 1. Final discharge or acquittance, as from debt or obligation. 2. Removal from activity; rest; death. 3. Something that serves to suppress or quiet. Ex.: Consider a small police-blotter report from an 1875 issue of The Grant County Herald in Silver City, N[ew] M[exico]: 'We learn that on Friday, Jose Garcia, who lives at the Chino copper mines, caught his wife in flagrante delicto -- we leave the reader to guess the crime -- Jose, then and there, gave her the quietus with an axe.' --Thomas Kunkel, "The Pen Is Mightier Than the Six-Shooter," _New York Times_, [30 August 1998] sempiternal [sem-pih-TUR-nuhl], adjective: Of never ending duration; having beginning but no end; everlasting; endless. Synonyms: enduring, eternal, everlasting, perpetual. terminus [TUR-muh-nuhs], noun: 1. The finishing point; the end. 2. A boundary; a border; a limit. 3. A post or stone marking a boundary.  ENEMIES . . see: "ADVERSARIES" see: "HATE" see: "MALICE" see: "QUARRELS" see: "REVENGE" see "WAR & PEACE" for other related links We often give our enemies the means for our own destruction. --Ζsop (c.620 B.C.c.560 B.C.) (Thought to be a legendary figure.) _Ζsop's Fables_ What is man's chief enemy? Each man is his own. --Anacharsis (600 BC) Scythian prince. Pay attention to your enemies, for they are the first to discover your mistakes. --Antisthenes (c. 445c. 365 BC) Greek philosopher. Men of sense often learn from their enemies. Prudence is the best safeguard. This principle cannot be learned from a friend, but an enemy extorts it immediately. It is from their foes, not their friends, that cities learn the lesson of building high walls and ships of war. And this lesson saves their children, their homes, and their properties. --Aristophanes (c. 450c. 388 BC) Greek comic dramatist. He has no enemy, you say; My friend your boast is poor, He who hath mingled in the fray Of duty that the brave endure Must have made foes. If he has none Small is the work that he has done. He has hit no traitor on the hip; Has cast no cup from perjured lip; Has never turned the wrong to right; Has been a coward in the fight. --Anton Alexander Auersperg [pseu. Anastasius Grόn] (18061876) Austrian poet. In Kate Louise Roberts _Hoyt's New Cyclopedia of Practical Quotations, p. 221 [1922]. Call no man foe, but never love a stranger. --Stella Benson (18921933) English novelist and poet. He that is not with me is against me. --Bible "Matthew" 12:30 Better make a weak man your enemy than your friend. --Josh Billings [Henry Wheeler Shaw] (18181885) American humorist. "Affurisms" _Josh Billings: His Sayings_ [1865] Yet is every man his greatest enemy, and, as it were, his own executioner. --Sir Thomas Browne (16051682) English writer and physician. He that wrestles with us strengthens our nerves, and sharpens our skill. Our antagonist is our helper. --Edmund Burke (17291797) Irish-born Whig politician and man of letters. You have enemies? Good. That means you've stood up for something, sometime in your life. --attributed to Winston Churchill (18741965) British Conservative statesman and Prime Minister [19401945, 19511955]. If you want enemies, excel others; if you want friends, let others excel you. --C.C. Colton (17801832) English clergyman and writer. _Lacon: or, Many Things in Few Words; Addressed to Those Who Think_ [1820] You shall judge of a man by his foes as well as by his friends. --Joseph Conrad (18571924) Polish-born English novelist. _Lord Jim_ [1900] Love your enemies, just in case your friends turn out to be bunch of bastards. --R.A. Dickson If Gladstone fell into the Thames, that would be misfortune; and if anybody pulled him out, that, I suppose, would be a calamity. --Benjamin Disraeli (18041881) British Tory statesman, novelist, and Prime Minister [1868, 18741880]. In Leon Harris _The Fine Art of Political Wit_ [1965] Whenever citizens are seen routinely as enemies of their own government, writers are routinely seen to be the most dangerous enemies. --E.L. (Edgar Lawrence) Doctorow (1931 ) American writer. If Mr. Selwyn calls again, show him up: if I am alive, I shall be delighted to see him; and if I am dead, he will be delighted to see me. --Henry Fox [Baron Holland of Foxley] (17051774) English Whig politician. Love your enemies, for they tell you your faults. --Benjamin Franklin (17061790) American politician, inventor, and scientist. _Poor Richard's Almanac_ [1756] MAN: President [Franklin D. Roosevelt] is his own worst enemy. GEORGE: Not as long as I'm alive, he's not. --Walter George (18781957) 1938 remark by U.S. Senator from Georgia, in Cokie Roberts "Divided Government Is the Best Revenge" _New York Times_ [27 August 1992]. A wise man gets more use from his enemies than a fool from his friends. --Baltasar Graciαn (16011658) Spanish Jesuit philosopher. One should forgive one's enemies, but not before they are hanged. --Heinrich Heine (17971856) German poet. Your enemy is never a villain in his own eyes. Keep this in mind; it may offer a way to make him your friend. If not, you can kill him without hate and quickly. --Robert A(nson) Heinlein (19071988) American science-fiction writer. _Time Enough for Love_ [1973] The enemy is anyone who's going to get you killed, no matter which side he's on. --Joseph Heller (19231999) American novelist. _Catch-22_ [1961] - If you attend to your work, and let your enemy alone, some one else will come along some day, and do him up for you. --Edgar Watson Howe (18541937) American journalist and author. _Country Town Sayings_ [1911] You needn't love your enemy, but if you refrain from telling lies about him, you are doing well enough. --Edgar Watson Howe (18541937) American journalist and author. - In the end, we will remember not the words of our enemies, but the silence of our friends. --Martin Luther King, Jr. (19291968) American civil rights leader. Our enemies come nearer the truth in the opinions they form of us than we do in our opinion of ourselves. --Franηois de La Rochefoucauld (16131680) French classical author. Be assured those will be thy worst enemies, not to whom thou hast done evil, but who have done evil to thee. And those will be thy best friends, not to whom thou hast done good, but who have done good to thee. --Johann Kaspar Lavater (17411801) Swiss writer, Protestant pastor, and founder of physiognomics. In Rev. S. P. Linn _Golden Gleams of Thought_ [1909] p. 259. The face of the enemy frightens me only when I see how much it resembles mine. --Stanislaw Jerzy Lec (19091966) Polish writer. _Unkempt Thoughts_, tr. Jacek Galazka [1962] If we could read the secret history of our enemies we should find in each man's life sorrow and suffering enough to disarm all hostility. --Henry Wadsworth Longfellow (18071882) American poet. Folks never understand the folks they hate. --James Russell Lowell (18191891) American poet, critic, essayist, and diplomat. _The Biglow Papers_ Second Series [1867] I am persuaded that he who is capable of being a bitter enemy can never possess the necessary virtues that constitute a true friend. --William Melmoth _Fitzosborne's Letters, on Several Subjects_ [1815] Nobody can deny but religion is a comfort to the distressed, a cordial to the sick, and sometimes a restraint on the wicked; therefore, whoever would laugh or argue it out of the world, without giving some equivalent for it, ought to be treated as a common enemy. --Lady Mary Wortley Montagu [nιe Pierrepont] (16891762) English writer. Letter to the Countess of Bute [23 June 1752]; v. III _Letters and Works of Lady Mary Wortley Montagu_. You must consider every man your enemy who speaks ill of your king; and . . . you must hate a Frenchman as you hate the devil. --Horatio Nelson (17581805) British naval commander. If you don't have enemies, you don't have character. --Paul Newman (1925 ) Amercan actor. How good bad music and bad reasons sound when we march against an enemy. --Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche (18441900) German classical scholar, philosopher, and critic of culture. We have met the enemy and they are ours. --Oliver Hazard Perry (17851819) American naval officer. Announcing American victory over the British at the naval battle of Lake Erie [10 September 1813]. Your friends sometimes go to sleep, your enemies never do. --Thomas Brackett Reed (18391902) American lawyer and politician. In an address [6 March 1891]. William A. Robinson _Thomas B. Reed, Parliamentarian_ [1930] - Inflict not on an enemy every injury in your power, for he may afterwards become your friend. --Sa'di [Muslih-uddin] (c. 11841291?) Iranian poet. It is better to break off a thousand friendships than to endure the sight of a single enemy. --Sa'di [Muslih-uddin] (c. 11841291?) Iranian poet. Whosoever formeth an intimacy with the enemies of his friends, does so to injure the latter. O wise man, wash your hands of that friend who associates with your enemies. --Sa'di [Muslih-uddin] (c. 11841291?) Iranian poet. - Heat not a furnace for your foe so hot That it do singe yourself. --William Shakespeare (15641616) English dramatist. _Henry VIII_ [1613] Know your enemies: avoid them, if you can; intimidate them, if you can't, subdue them, if you must. --Thomas Szasz (1920 ) American psychiatrist. _The Untamed Tongue: A Dissenting Dictionary_ [1990], "Ethics" He makes no friend who never made a foe. --Alfred, Lord Tennyson (18091892) English poet. _Idylls of the King_, l. 1109 I have never made but one prayer to God, a very short one: 'O Lord, make my enemies ridiculous.' And God granted it. --Voltaire (Franηois Marie Arouet) (16941778) French writer and philosopher. Letter to M. Damilaville [16 May 1767]. Our cruel and unrelenting enemy leaves us only the choice of brave resistance, or the most abject submission. We have, therefore, to resolve to conquer or die. --George Washington (17321799) American general and commander-in-chief of the colonial armies in the American Revolution [17751783] and first president of the United States [17891797]. _Address to the Continental Army before the battle of Long Island_ [27 August 1776]. One of the most time-consuming things is to have an enemy. --E.B. [Elwyn Brooks] White (18991985) American essayist and literary stylist. - Always forgive your enemies; nothing annoys them so much. --Oscar Wilde (18541900) Anglo-Irish dramatist and poet. He has no enemies, but is intensely disliked by his friends. --Oscar Wilde (18541900) Anglo-Irish dramatist and poet. A man cannot be too careful in the choice of his enemies. --Oscar Wilde (18541900) Anglo-Irish dramatist and poet. _The Picture of Dorian Gray_, Ch. 1 [1891] - ----- inimical [ih-NIM-ih-kul], adjective: Having the disposition or temper of an enemy; unfriendly; unfavorable. quisling (noun) ['kwiz-ling] A traitor who turns against his or her own country to serve an invader. Etymology: A commonization of the last name of Vidkun Quisling (1887-1945), head of Norway's government during the Nazi occupation of World War II. . . see: "EFFORT" see: "FORCE" see: "STRENGTH" He who would do some great thing in this short life must apply himself to the work with such a concentration of his forces as, to idle spectators, who live only to amuse themselves, looks like insanity. --John Foster (17701843) English clergyman and essayist. Energy and persistence conquer all things. --Benjamin Franklin (17061790) American politician, inventor, and scientist. They think they can make fuel from horse manure.... Now, I don't know if your car will be able to get 30 miles to the gallon, but it's sure gonna put a stop to siphoning. --Billie Holliday [Eleanora Fagan] (19151959) American jazz singer. TOPICAL Bush, Pushing Energy Plan, Offers Scores of Proposals to Find New Power Sources By David E. Sanger & Joseph Kahn _The New York Times_ May 18, 2001 EVADA, Iowa, May 17 President Bush began an intensive effort today to sell his plan for developing new sources of energy to Congress and the American people, arguing that the country had a future of "energy abundance" if it could break free of the traditional antagonism between energy producers and environmental advocates. Mr. Bush's plea for a new dialogue came as his administration published the report of an energy task force containing scores of specific proposals many that he can impose by executive order for finding new sources of power and encouraging a range of new energy technologies. His critics swarmed over the specifics, noting that the plan set no targets for improved energy efficiency, offered no short-term relief for out-of-control electricity prices in the West and provided only modest financing for research into clean energy technology. The president appeared at a highly efficient heating and cooling plant near St. Paul that burns a variety of fuels, including oil, coal and waste wood, to sound a theme he plans to repeat day after day. The parties in the energy debate have "yelled at each other enough," Mr. Bush said. "Now it's time to listen to each other." "Too often Americans are asked to take sides between energy production and environmental protection," Mr. Bush added, before flying here, to a farming town north of Des Moines, to continue his argument at a small biomass plant that makes power by burning materials derived from animal waste and plants. "As if people who revere the Alaskan wilderness do not also care about America's energy future; as if the people who produce America's energy do not care about the planet their children will inherit." Mr. Bush appeared to be weaving a careful political thread, arguing that if America failed to act now, "this great country could face a darker future, a future that is, unfortunately, being previewed in rising prices at the gas pump and rolling blackouts in the great state of California." Mr. Bush also said rising energy prices had put an intolerable burden on families and farmers. But some of the statistics in his own report seemed to undercut that claim. One chart showed that the share of disposable household income spent on energy had declined to less than 5 percent today from 8 percent during the early days of the Reagan administration. (That percentage has begun to rise again, but only to the levels of the mid-1990's, before a sharp drop in energy prices.) Mr. Bush talked not only of blackouts but of blackmail, raising the specter of a future in which the United States is increasingly vulnerable to foreign oil suppliers. He argued, for example, that the Arctic National Wildlife Reserve, which he wants to open to drilling, can produce 600,000 barrels of oil a day for the next 47 years. "That happens to be exactly the amount the United States now imports from Iraq," he said. Opening the Alaskan refuge to drilling is just one source of contention with Democrats and some moderate Republicans, many of whom argue that the Bush administration has put undue emphasis on increasing supplies of fossil fuels at the expense of the environment. Critics say that although the report seems designed to suggest a balanced approach, it minimizes the potential role of alternative sources of energy and the possibility of reducing future demand through efficiency and conservation. "America must embrace the promise offered by new technologies," said Senator Joseph I. Lieberman, Democrat of Connecticut. "The energy crisis is not an excuse for creating an environmental crisis." Republicans offered far more support for the president. Senator Frank H. Murkowski of Alaska, chairman of the Senate Energy Committee, said he planned hearings next week to begin consideration of 25 recommendations in the Bush report that require legislative action. "Not everyone is going to like this plan," Mr. Murkowski said, "but at least now we have a plan to kick around." He said the previous administration had failed to grapple with the nation's energy sources through a comprehensive plan. Clinton administration officials disputed the assertion and blamed Congress for failing to enact energy legislation. Yet even Mr. Murkowski sounded a note of caution about Mr. Bush's approach. He said the report offered few immediate remedies for California's electricity crisis or for rising gasoline prices. He said Republicans might have to consider a gas-tax rollback or the temporary suspension of some environmental provisions to address supply bottlenecks. Mr. Bush was praised by many groups for laying out a long-term energy policy. His report contained 105 initiatives although many of them are endorsements of actions already in place. And while in his public comments he always started with talk of conservation, the report itself was much more specific when it came to tapping new supplies. "No matter how much we conserve, we're still going to need more energy," he said here this afternoon. "The State of California is the second best state at conservation, and yet they are still running out of energy." Among those who took a different view was former president Jimmy Carter, who wrote in The Washington Post this morning that the United States did not confront an energy crisis comparable to those of 1973 and 1979. "World supplies are adequate and reasonably stable, price fluctuations are cyclical, reserves are plentiful," he argued. Mr. Carter said "exaggerated claims seem designed to promote some long-frustrated ambitions of the oil industry at the expense of environmental quality." Some chapters of the energy plan resemble the annual reports issued by energy companies, with color photos of bears living happily in the wilderness, forests that can absorb carbon dioxide and fly-fishermen wading in pristine water, practicing the favorite sport of the report's main author, Vice President Dick Cheney. While the report clinically assessed all the available sources of energy and promised to encourage development of those that do the least environmental damage, it fell far short of describing the moon-shot approach to efficiency and renewable energy that was an ambition of the Carter years. In fact, federal spending on research and development of wind, solar, geothermal and biomass energy sources, as well as on energy efficiency technology, has never equaled the $3 billion spent in 1980, Mr. Carter's final year in office, even after adjustments for inflation. If the Bush plan were fully put into effect, it would potentially double what the administration had planned to spend over 10 years for renewable energy research and for tax incentives for people and companies that purchase energy-efficient products, like hybrid cars. But the estimated $10 billion commitment over that period is below what the Clinton administration had projected spending for roughly the same period, and well below what energy experts say would be required to make some cutting-edge energy technologies commonplace. "Americans spend $600 billion a year on energy," said John Holdren, an energy and environmental policy expert at Harvard who helped draft a Clinton administration study of clean energy sources. "The Bush people are proposing to change habits by incentives that amount to about one-tenth of one percent of that amount each year. It's not very significant." Though the report devotes more chapters and more recommendations to measures related to the environment, conservation and renewable energy than those related to traditional sources the impact of what the administration intends to do to increase traditional energy supplies greatly outweighs what it aspires to do to diminish demand. The report notes that efficiency in homes and offices could help reduce the need for new power plants, which it says must total at least 1,300 by 2020. But it adopts no goal for such improvements. In the same manner, addressing auto efficiency standards, the report reviews how Corporate Average Fuel Economy mandates improved the performance of combustion engines in the 1980's. But it puts off any decision on whether to raise those standards now, saying the administration would wait for a study to be completed. The report is far less tentative in the area regulations it identifies as hindering the oil, gas, nuclear and utility industries. It mentions about a dozen areas including land-use restrictions in the Rockies, lease stipulations on offshore areas attractive to oil companies, the vetting of locations for nuclear plants, environmental reviews to upgrade power plants and refineries that could be streamlined or eliminated to help industry find more oil and gas and produce more electricity and gasoline. California, where soaring electricity prices and rolling blackouts have been the main contributor to the idea that the nation faces on energy crisis, gets little in the Bush plan. The report notes that federal agencies have been asked to reduce peak power use in California in coming months, but that is far less than California officials want. Senator Dianne Feinstein, Democrat of California, called the plan "a bible for long-term energy production and not even a pamphlet for the urgent short-term actions needed to help us get out of the crisis" in her home state. She particularly criticized Mr. Bush's refusal to call for electricity price caps in California. In what seems likely to be one of its most contested recommendations, the Bush team recommends creating a national electricity grid, akin to the interstate highway system, and giving federal agencies the right to take land for electricity transmission by eminent domain. That proposal has already come under attack by Western governors and is sure to be a battle in Congress. http://www.nytimes.com/2001/05/18/politics/18BUSH.html?ex=1214107200&en=26eb19b32509b4bb&ei=5070 ----- dervish (noun) ['dκr-vish] A Muslim friar or fakir belonging to a sect that induces mystical trances by dancing feverishly while chanting religious phrases ("whirling dervish" or "howling dervish"), hence anyone possessed of frenetic energy. indefatigable (adj.) Incapable or seemingly incapable of being fatigued; tireless. Synonyms: tireless, unflagging, unwearying lackadaisical Without much enthusiasm, energy, or effort. lassitude [LASS-uh-tood], noun: Lack of vitality or energy; weariness; listlessness. The feverish excitement ... had given place to a dull, regretful lassitude. --George Eliot, "Romola" renascent [rih-NAS-uhnt], adjective: Springing or rising again into being; showing renewed vigor. Ex.: Where are the new ideas upon which a renascent Toryism can build? --David Aaronovitch, "There's no setting for Hague's Tories at the nation's kitchen table," _Independent_ [11 March 1999] roborant [ROB-uh-ruhnt], adjective: 1. Strengthening; restoring vigor. 2. 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