Word: equality
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...Senate, the $4.8 billion Farm Bill was the issue. During his campaign Carter had told Iowa farmers, "We will make sure that our support prices are at least equal to the cost of production." But growers called his proposed support prices-including wheat at $2.60 per bu. -inadequate and "cruel." Carter upped the prices (wheat went to $2.90). But both houses of Congress raised them higher still: the House committee put wheat at $3.00, the Senate at $3.10. Last week the Senate approved its more generous Farm Bill by a lopsided margin of 69 to 18-more than...
Fuqua Industries, an Atlanta-based conglomerate, offered to pay no less than $15.50 each for all of the Avis shares held by Smith, and agreed to make an equal or even better offer for the remainder of the stock held by the public. The Justice Department eagerly let it be known that it favored complete divestiture of the shares by the trustee as quickly as possible...
...world's largest and most powerful laser. On the other hand, experts at Sandia Laboratories in Albuquerque are pinning their hopes for achieving fusion on the descendants of an already operating machine called Proto, which fires a beam of electrons at the pellet, zapping it with a jolt equal to 8 trillion watts...
Author McCullough describes the building of the canal as if it were a war. Its best-remembered hero was Colonel George Washington Goethals, chief overseer of the project, but equal credit must go to William Gorgas, the Army doctor who wiped out the disease-carrying mosquitoes, and John Stevens, a rough, amiable Westerner who refused to start digging until there were adequate warehouses, railroad facilities, housing and hospitals...
...youths than ever are seeking work. According to the latest figures for the nine Common Market nations in Western Europe, there are about 1.8 million jobless youths; they make up 37% of all unemployed in the region. In Britain, more than 500,000 young people are out of work, equal to 35% of all the unemployed. French youths account for 37.6% of the jobless. West Germany's youthful unemployment of 24.8% of those out of work is the lowest in Europe, but that contrasts with conditions three years ago when Germany was importing labor (Gastarbeiter, or guest workers...