Word: baseness
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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INADEQUATE INVESTMENT In the 25 years up to 1973, business spending on new plants added about 3% a year to the nation's capital base-plants and machines-but since then the total has risen only some 1.75% a year. Businessmen blame the drop on regulation, profit squeeze, high taxes on capital, and inflation, which saps the confidence that is necessary for investment...
...Stephen Baird, 31, took to the streets during the antiwar crusade of the 1960s, and has been there ever since. A guitarist and dulcimer player, as well as a singer, he ranges out from his Boston base to cities and campuses across the country, carrying word of protest movements and food coops wherever he goes. His favorite cause is street music itself. He hopes for a grant from the National Endowment for the Arts to write a book about its lore, its leading lights and its legal problems. Balding, with thick wire-rimmed spectacles, Baird likes to work the same...
Their hands snap salutes to officers, and none of them can leave the base out of uniform. For the 8,000 trainees at the base, located on Lake Michigan about 35 miles north of Chicago's Loop, the watchword has now become the venerable Navy...
...center in the early 1970s to make Navy life more attractive to recruits. The Navy decided to get tough after hundreds of trainees rioted for two days in late June in a park and along the sleazy strip of bars, pool halls and prostitute haunts near the base's gates. Complaining that they had been continually cheated by merchants on the strip, the sailors went on a window-smashing, rock-throwing rampage that ended only when the Shore Patrol and North Chicago police officers charged into the mob, swinging their billy clubs. Afterward, 58 trainees were court-martialed...
...measures, which took effect last week, include: a ban on wearing civilian clothes on the base or when leaving it; a one-third increase in trainees' duty time, to 24 hours spread over every four days; and the assignment of 100 extra petty officers, making a total of 1,700. The worst troublemakers were transferred to a new disciplinary division led by Chief Warrant Officer Joseph ("Gunner") Cahill. Said the veteran Navyman: "Most of these guys will be good sailors. But they need someone to say, This is the way it is.' We have to bring them...