The 2017 season started with the Australian Grand Prix on March 26 2017, and ended with Abu Dhabi Grand Prix on November 26 2017.
Veli Lehtelä
Veli Veikko Valtteri Lehtelä (6 September 1935 – 3 June 2020) was a Finnish rower. He competed in various two-man and four man events at the 1956, 1960 and 1964 Olympics and won two bronze medals, in 1956 and 1960. He was born in Sääksmäki, Finland.
Lehtelä died on 3 June 2020 in Helsinki, aged 84.
Mirna Ansaldi
Mirna Eugenia Ansaldi (born 10 July 1977) is an Argentine volleyball player.
She played at the 2002 FIVB Volleyball Women's World Championship, 2005 Women's Pan-American Volleyball Cup, 2006 Women's Pan-American Volleyball Cup, and 2008 Women's Pan-American Volleyball Cup.
On club level she played with Gimnasia y Esgrima de Rosario.
1970s energy crisis
The 1970s energy crisis happened when the Western world, mainly in the United States, Canada, Western Europe, Australia, and New Zealand, faced large petroleum shortages as well as inflated prices. The two worst crises of this period were the 1973 oil crisis and the 1979 energy crisis, when the Yom Kippur War and the Iranian Revolution caused an interruptions in Middle Eastern oil exports.
Moral Equivalent of War speech
United States President Jimmy Carter's Moral Equivalent of War speech was a speech in which Carter addressed the United States on April 18, 1977. It is remembered as the speech where he compared the energy crisis with the "moral equivalent of war". He said the goal was to lower dependence on oil imports and "cut in half the portion of United States oil which is imported, from a potential level of 16 million barrels to six million barrels a day."
The phrase has become so well known, it is referenced in literature.
Natalia Brussa
Natalia Guadalupe Brussa (born 13 February 1985) is an Argentine volleyball player.
She played at the 2002 FIVB Volleyball Women's World Championship.
She played for Scavolini Pesaro, Universal Modena, and Tauron MKS Dabrowa Gornicza.
Rationing
Rationing is when a person gives away a low amount of an already lowering amount of resources, goods, services, or an artificial restriction of demand.
Rationing controls the size of the ration, which is one's allowed portion of the resources being distributed on a particular day or at a particular time.
Love Canal
Love Canal is a neighborhood in Niagara Falls, New York. It is known as the location of a landfill that became the site of a massive environmental disaster in the 1970s. After years of dumping toxic chemicals harmed the health of hundreds of residents; the area was cleaned up over the course of 21 years in a Superfund operation.
It is seen as a "national symbol of a failure to exercise a sense of concern for future generations".
Superfund
The United States federal Superfund law is officially known as the Comprehensive Environmental Response, Compensation, and Liability Act of 1980 (CERCLA). The federal Superfund program is controlled by the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency (EPA). It is designed to investigate and clean up sites contaminated with toxic waste.
Sites managed under this program are known as "Superfund" sites. There are 40,000 federal Superfund sites across the country, and about 1,600 of those sites have been listed on the National Priorities List (NPL).
Mariana Conde
Mariana Isabel Conde (born 23 July 1973) is an Argentine volleyball player.
She played at the 2002 FIVB Volleyball Women's World Championship.
She played for Volley 2000 Spezzano and Volley Modena.
1973–1975 recession
The 1973–1975 recession or 1970s recession was a period of economic stagnation in much of the Western world during the 1970s. It was different from many previous recessions by being a stagflation, where high unemployment and high inflation existed at the same time.
Among the causes were the 1973 oil crisis and the fall of the Bretton Woods system after the Nixon Shock.
The recession in the United States lasted from November 1973 (the Richard Nixon presidency) to March 1975 (the Gerald Ford presidency), and its effects on the US were felt through the Jimmy Carter presidency until the mid-term of Ronald Reagan's first term as president.
Nixon shock
The Nixon shock was a series of economic measures done by United States President Richard Nixon in 1971, in response to increasing inflation. He froze wage and price. He also directed the cancellation of the direct international convertibility of the United States dollar to gold.
Consumer confidence
Consumer confidence is an economic word that measures the degree of optimism that consumers feel about the overall state of the economy and their personal financial situation. If the consumer has confidence in the economy, it is more likely they will spend money rather than save money.
Airline Deregulation Act
The Airline Deregulation Act is a 1978 United States federal law that deregulated the airline business in the United States. It removed all of the federal government control over such areas as fares, routes, and market entry of new airlines.
It introduced a free market in the commercial airline business and led to a great increase in the number of flights, a decrease in fares, an increase in the number of passengers and miles flown, and a consolidation of carriers.
Romina Lamas
Romina Lamas (born Romina Gueren, 29 August 1978 in Buenos Aires) is an Argentine volleyball player. She played at the 2002 FIVB Volleyball Women's World Championship.
She played for Igtisadchi Baku, Çanakkale Belediyespor, Hainaut Volley, Aguere La Laguna, and CV Tenerife. She won the MVP at the 2010/11 Spanish Cup, and best setter at 2016/17 Spanish Superliga 2.
Airline deregulation
Airline deregulation is the process of removing government-controlled entry and price restrictions on airlines affecting, in particular, the carriers allowed to fly specific routes.
In the United States, the term usually connects to the Airline Deregulation Act of 1978. A new form of regulation has been created to some extent to deal with problems such as the given away the limited number of slots available at airports.
Commercial aviation
Commercial aviation is the part of civil aviation (both general aviation and scheduled airline services) that involves working aircraft for hire to transport passengers or multiple loads of cargo.
The Air Commerce Act of 1926 began to allow commercial aviation by creating standards, facilitation, and promotion.
Civil Aeronautics Board
The Civil Aeronautics Board (CAB) was an agency of the federal government of the United States, formed in 1938 and ended in 1985. It regulated aviation services including scheduled passenger airline service and provided air accident investigation. The agency headquarters were in Washington, D.C.
Deregulation
Deregulation is the process of removing or lowering state regulations, usually for economic purposes. It is the reversing of governmental regulation of the economy. It became widely used in industrial economies in the 1970s and 1980s, as a result of new forms in economic thinking.
Economic regulations were promoted during the Gilded Age, in which progressive reforms were seen as important to make sure companies do not abuse labor laws.
Regulation
Regulation is the management of complex systems. It is based on a set of rules and trends. In systems theory, these types of rules exist in many parts of biology and society, but the term has slightly different meanings. For example:
The opposite of regulation is deregulation.
Homebrewing
Homebrewing is the making beer, mead, and ciders in small amounts for personal use, not for sale. In the United States, a permit is required to distill spirits such as moonshine.
Jimmy Carter Regional Airport
Jimmy Carter Regional Airport previously Souther Field is a public airport located four miles (6 km) northeast of the central business district of Americus, in Sumter County, Georgia, United States. It owned by the Sumter County and Airport Authority.
USS Jimmy Carter