Word: floodings
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...wicked weather also brought drought, flood and one major tragedy In Johnstown, Pa. (pop. 41,000), site of the deadliest deluge in U.S. history,* a seven-hour thunderstorm produced floods that left at least 46 people dead more than 50,000 homeless and an estimated $200 million in damages...
...heat on Congress. They formed Southern businessmen's groups to exhort Dixie House members, and some corporations sent letters to stockholders urging them to write to Congressmen in opposition to the consumer agency. Says Andrew Biemiller, chief AFL-CIO lobbyist: "One thing they can do is flood that goddamned Hill with letters." Motley adds that the N.F.I.B. can turn out "local auto dealers, local accountants and dry cleaners, hardware dealers, dairymen-Kiwanians, Lions, church people. When we tell a Congressman, 'we've got 600 members in your district'-that's different...
...seniority systems, benefiting minorities, that have been negotiated between companies and unions; when those contracts come up for renegotiation, white unionists may argue that there is no court compulsion to keep the new systems. Some lawyers predict that another effect of the ruling will be to prompt a flood of "reverse discrimination" suits by white males claiming that they were held back so that women and blacks could catch up. The leading reverse-discrimination case, filed by a white student who was denied admission to the University of California at Davis Medical School, is headed for argument before the Supreme...
...flood of Japanese TV sets on the U.S. market has long been a sore point with American TV manufacturers and labor unions. By one estimate, 70,000 jobs have been lost to Japanese imports, which last year accounted for 2.9 million sets, or 38% of the domestic market. In May, the Carter Administration worked out a deal with Japanese makers to limit imports. But now the picture is darkening again; U.S. Government investigators are probing charges that Japanese manufacturers have been making illegal kickbacks to U.S. importers as a way of getting around federal "antidumping" regulations, and selling color...
Political Pressures. To keep this flood of cash moving and to make a profit, U.S. banks have been lending these funds to LDCs. But, Triffin believes, in taking on this responsibility the banks are making themselves too vulnerable to pressures from their oil-rich depositors. In any disagreement with U.S. policy, a bloc of OPEC nations could quickly withdraw its deposits, possibly leading to a dangerous disruption in the foreign exchange market...