Word: 1970s
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...good time to get on board. The percentage of democracies in the world had doubled since the 1970s, to more than 60%. Many of the remaining autocracies--pariah states like North Korea, Burma and Iran--seemed to be living on borrowed time. In ideological terms, as Francis Fukuyama famously declared, history was ending--and Nigeria didn't want to be left behind...
...more so because of the polarizing impact it continues to have on the country. A member of the coalition, former Republican Senate Majority Leader Howard Baker of Tennessee, compared the challenge of reform to the bipartisan efforts made on civil rights in the 1960s and the environment in the 1970s. Baker knows Washington's political culture has changed for the worse since he retired several years ago, so while his description of the scope of the problem is accurate, the difficulty of achieving it in the current bitter climate is considerable...
...digging around Siemens, Hershman says he is suffering from déjà vu. He compares Siemens' dilemma to General Electric's when Jack Welch was forced to confront similar issues, and he believes the challenge for German industry is much broader. "Germany is now not unlike the U.S. in the 1970s, when there was a host of big corruption cases," he says. For Siemens, the end of the bad news is far from over. As Kleinfeld was making his parting statements, the SEC launched an official investigation into the company. And Siemens conceded that the amount of money siphoned...
...October 2005, Kaczynski offered to donate two books to the library of Northwesten University, the target of Kaczynski’s first two bombs. A campus policeman and graduate student suffered minor injuries when they opened packages containing explosive materials in the late 1970s...
...husband?â€Questions such as these have long fascinated Goldin as she has studied the factors leading to inequality—in gender, race, and education.Previously, this has led her to study slavery in the antebellum South, labor participation of black and white women in the 1970s, and the history of wage inequality in the U.S.The latter topic is the subject of her latest book, co-written with her partner and colleague, Allison Professor of Economics Lawrence F. Katz.For Goldin, writing about women is not a political decision but an academic one.“Women were always...