Word: 1970s
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...course, newspapers have long been moneymakers. In the early 1970s, however, a dramatic spurt in the price of newsprint hobbled the entire industry. Much of the present recovery is due to newspaper management's new reliance on marketing studies to help give readers what they want, rather than what editors think they should have. In most cases, that rather unjournalistic practice means less national and world news and more leisure-time features, consumer reporting and life-style coverage...
...From the 1950s to the 1970s the U.S. waged an unjust war in Indochina, killing over one million Indochinese and over 50,000 Americans...
Teng was the most notable of the discredited pragmatists whom Chou brought back to power in the early 1970s. Teng quickly acquired the jobs of Vice Premier, Politburo member, vice chairman of the party and chief of staff of the army. As Chou's strength ebbed, he became Peking's principal international spokesman. Most experts thought he would succeed Chou as Premier. Hua and the radicals-apparently with the blessing of the ailing Helmsman -blocked his way. A few months after Chou's death he was dismissed from his jobs and vilified in the press. When...
...early 1970s, J. Anthony Morris, a respected vaccine researcher working at the National Institute of Health (NIH), began questioning the safety of some vaccines and the effectiveness of others, especially of flu vaccines. His superiors at NIH responded by taking away his support staff and laboratory space, killing his animals and cutting off his supplies. Eventually, Morris was left with nothing but a small office and a telephone...
...have never considered him a "pork-chopper," their term for a high-hat leader. They like his unpretentious ways-he often wears a turtleneck shirt-and candid talk. Sample: when "job enrichment," the idea of making workers' jobs more rewarding psychologically, was a fashionable subject in the early 1970s, Fraser remarked bluntly that the best way to enrich an auto assembler's job was to give him more paid time away from...