Word: 1960s
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Issler's lament is a far cry from the sexually liberated pronouncements of the 1960s. "The U.S. is going through a counterrevolution," says Richard Lincoln of New York City's Alan Guttmacher Institute. "We're moving backwards." Reason for the retreat: consumers' health worries and manufacturers' concerns about spiraling liability claims. Last January the IUD was nearly eliminated from the American market when G.D. Searle discontinued the Copper-7 and the Tatum-T. Defending just four Copper-7 liability suits cost the firm $1.5 million in legal fees, even though it won the cases. Sales of the Copper-7 amounted...
...good or ill, Lauren's first creations sparked the wide-tie-and-lapel boom of the late 1960s and early '70s. His ties were four inches wide, compared with the then standard 2 1/2 inches, came in vibrant Italian-silk patterns and were priced at $15, more than double the conventional rate. "For anyone who liked clothes, to have a Polo tie was such a luxury. It was really a coveted item," recalls a former employee, Anthony Edgeworth, now a noted photographer. Lauren sold $500,000 worth of ties in his 1967 start-up year, when his entire business...
Institute for Policy Studies, Washington. One of the biggest of the left-wing think tanks, and for years the most visible. I.P.S. grew up in the 1960s, and the 1980s have not been congenial to its anti-interventionist and environmentalist policies...
Having one of your own is a phrase with a ring to it, and since the mid- 1960s, when only one privately owned railroad car rolled in the entire country, it is a ring that more than a few people have answered. Railroad slang for privately owned stock is "private varnish," and a magazine by that name is sent to some 3,000 train buffs. The American Association of Private Railroad Car Owners has 157 full and 240 associate members, and 230 cars are registered in Amtrak's Washington headquarters, most of them lavishly furnished and all fully functional...
...1960s, however, the National Party had changed the balance of the courts. Overlooking some distinguished but all-too-liberal candidates, the government named less eminent but more sympathetic lawyers to judicial posts. At the same time, the Parliament enacted a number of laws that severely curbed court powers. Result: through the 1970s, few court hearings challenged the increasingly tough security edicts...