Word: closed
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...dismissals, publishing a list of employees by seniority-a not so subtle means of lighting a fire against 13. School boards have sent notices to thousands of teachers that they may be laid off. Librarians have been warned that 60% of the state's libraries may have to close. The U.C.L.A. Business Forecasting Project estimates that the proposition would cost 451,000 jobs in the state, push the unemployment rate, now 7.3%, to 10.1%, and shift $2.7 billion to the Federal Government because of lowered property-tax deductions on IRS forms...
...close votes-congressional compromises tend not to be unanimous-Senate and House conferees approved a plan to phase out federal price controls on natural gas. Fondling the needlepoint, Schlesinger exulted: "This is the end of the Thirty Years' War." It has indeed been 30 years since the first attempt to deregulate gas prices, but this last battle began 13 months ago, when the President sent his energy proposals to Congress. The conference committee had been wrestling with the problem for six months...
...corner of Washington seemed untouched by the new/old winds ablow-ing. Fred Emery, over at the Federal Register, where new Government proposals are catalogued and printed each day, looked up at his staff at the close of work on May 18. The alltime record had just been broken-512 documents had been recorded in eight hours, eclipsing the old record of 386. "Hey," he said, "this Government is supposed to be going the other way." Yeah...
...greatest dismantlings of colonial power in history, the Russians were busy creating an empire of their own in Eastern Europe. Nonetheless, the Russians are free to identify themselves unambiguously with the African liberation movements, something the U.S. has rarely been able to do because of its close relations with the former colonial rulers...
...dictates of religious teachings. Significantly, the document declares that all sexual relations ought to occur only within heterosexual marriage. This signals a retreat from the so-called New Morality by the denomination that published Joseph Fletcher's influential Situation Ethics in 1966 and four years later came close to embracing such theories officially...