Word: foundings
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...vegetables threatens to erupt again. Responding to complaints from some Florida growers, the Treasury Department has begun investigating whether Mexican exports of tomatoes, eggplant, bell peppers, squash and cucumbers have been "dumped" in the U.S.-that is, sold at prices below their cost of production. Should the Mexicans be found guilty of violating the antidumping law they would have to pay duties on their produce to cover the margin of dumping. The issue is hot. As a State Department specialist puts it: "We have much bigger interests at stake in this matter than merely tomatoes...
Store owners had no place in their cash registers for the $2 bills when they were introduced in 1976, and some found it too easy to mistake them for $20 bills. The heavy, poker chip-sized Eisenhower dollars proved clumsy to carry around after they appeared in 1971, and are now pretty much relegated to the slot machines in Las Vegas and Atlantic City...
...long time, domestic violence did not get much attention from social scientists. If there was any real expert on this almost taboo subject, it was the cop on the beat, who often found himself intervening in family scraps, much to his chagrin: more policemen get killed or wounded while trying to settle such disputes than in any other line of duty. But lately social scientists like Straus, who heads the University of New Hampshire's Family Violence Research Program, have been taking a closer look at the subject. What they are finding is grim...
...addition, the bureau found that one of every five households now consists of just one person, up 54% since 1970. But it warned that the data "do not necessarily portend a sharp rise in lifelong singleness." Most of the increase is accounted for by widows and young people postponing marriage. Other studies show that living together is largely a way station en route from bachelorhood to matrimony...
Carter, along with every other federal employee in Washington, is already used to taking the heat: since April, thermostats in Government buildings have been set at 80° F. Hamilton Jordan found relief by throwing open his White House windows, but millions of office workers who would be affected by the new edict have no such option: most new commercial buildings are steel, aluminum and glass cocoons, hermetically sealed against the weather-and cooling breaths...