Word: dec
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...DEC. 11. In its first test, the Vanik Amendment breezes through the House 319 to 80. Kissinger says that he might recommend a presidential veto of the entire trade bill if a compromise on the amendment cannot be found...
...dubious distinction of having the dirtiest air of any U.S. city-to clean up its smoke. To do that, U.S. Steel pledged either to install antipollution equipment or replace all 53 of its open-hearth furnaces in the city with more efficient, less polluting basic oxygen furnaces by Dec. 31, 1973. When that date came, though the other U.S. Steel furnaces in Gary had been replaced, the ten open-hearth furnaces in Mill No. 4 were still in operation. So the company asked the state air-pollution control board, the city and the federal Environmental Protection Agency for first...
...shock therapy. The new law states that electric shock treatments can be administered only after "all other appropriate modalities have been exhausted," and then only with the approval of a board of three doctors, two of whom must come from outside the institution prescribing the therapy. But on Dec. 30, two days before the law was to go into effect, a superior court judge in San Diego issued a restraining order against enactment of the law on the grounds that it interferes with a patient's right to medical treatment of his choice. It is also, in the eyes...
...Arabs are coming! The Arabs are coming! Or are they? No great tide of petrodollars has rolled in yet, and American experts would actually welcome the balance of payments black ink and the economic stimulation such capital might bring (TIME ESSAY, Dec. 16). Nonetheless, at least six bills were introduced, unsuccessfully, during the last Congress in an effort to impede investment by foreign nationals...
...auction-a tidy 300% profit. More important, as Washington had intended, the sale helped to dampen further the hopes of speculators that great numbers of Americans would rush to trade dollars for the yellow metal after it became legal for them to own bullion on Dec. 31. Bullion bulls in Europe and the Middle East were only temporarily distressed by the American disinterest, however. In a show of confidence that legal gold would yet glitter for them, they bid the price back up to $178 on the London market by week...