Word: 1970s
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Seattle in fact has achieved a stunning comeback from the "Boeing bust" of the early 1970s, when the aircraft manufacturer slashed its work force from 105,000 to 38,000. Since the mid-1980s, the region's industries have diversified into computers, new fisheries and Pacific Rim trade. Unemployment has fallen to a 20-year low of 4.5%. Now business is so brisk at Boeing that not even a record-high work force of 110,000 is enough to meet production schedules. Last month 57,000 machinists went on strike at four Boeing plants, demanding a larger share of company...
...that earth functions like a giant organism; Scottish geologist James Hutton made the same point in 1785. But Lovelock's formulation is compelling because science now has the tools to explore some of the vast interactions that govern global systems. Although Lovelock first articulated his hypothesis in the early 1970s, in collaboration with microbiologist Lynn Margulis, it has only recently begun to have significant impact on the scientific world. Initially, Gaia was only embraced by New Age types who responded to a holistic view of nature that blurred the distinction between life and death...
...ever suspected that psychiatrists might be crazier than the patients they treat, then Beyond Therapy will provide you with plenty of ammunition. This jab at relationships in the 1970s succeeds in ridiculing many of the facades that men and women erect in their dealings, with each other, and it gleefully satirizes the practice of psychotherapy, revealing that the advice which "troubled" patients accept without question often comes from people whose own personal problems make their judgment suspect...
...less efficient, for example, than direct subsidies. Yet it was these subsidies that suffered more than any other program from Reagan's budget-cutting axe. In 1981, the federal government spent $33 billion on direct housing assistance. By 1989, it had been slashed to $8 billion. During the 1970s, the federal government built anywhere from 200,000 to 300,000 units of low-income housing per year. This year, it will build...
SINCE the mid 1970s, Cambridge has pursued a policy of aggressively seeking new development to raise tax revenue. In many ways, the policy has been a successful one. By attracting wealthy developers, Cambridge has been able to tranform itself from a dying industrial center to one of the area's most financially secure cities...