Word: forme
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...giving of the past, the rich have other ways of affecting political campaigns. They can contribute up to $5,000 to any of the 1,828 political action committees (PACs), which in turn can hand that sum on to candidates. Corporations, by soliciting their employees and stockholders, can form PACs too. Since the mid-'70s, companies and their trade associations have formed some 1,200 of these committees. PACS contributed more than $60 million to the 1978 election campaigns for the U.S. Senate and House of Representatives alone. The apparent impact thus far has been not to strengthen conservatives...
...contrite. The words were conciliatory. The old imperial arrogance was gone. "Your revolutionary message has been heard," said Shah Mohammed Reza Pahlavi. "I am aware of everything you have given your lives for. I commit myself to make up for past mistakes, to fight corruption and injustice, and to form a national government to carry out free elections...
...Consumer Product Safety Commission's 1974 ban on the use as a propellant of vinyl chloride, shown to be the cause of a rare form of liver cancer, from a host of aerosol products...
...approval of the bitterly disputed proposal. The lead had already been taken by Canada, New Zealand and Hong Kong with little backlash. But the U.S. cast a shadow: after a close pro-ordination vote for women in 1976, the church suffered an embarrassing schism when angry conservatives left to form a renegade Anglican Catholic denomination...
...What scares Whitman is that the turn to a more stable world monetary system may not come soon enough. People may panic and retreat behind walls of protectionism. Says Whitman: "There is an increasing sense that the postwar dream has failed, and that the only hope is to form regional trade blocs, with every bloc for itself." Europe's Common Market is one of the great imaginative ideas of the 20th century, she continues, but right now the Europeans are debating whether to turn inward or outward...