Word: fourth
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...right of the people to be secure in their persons, houses, papers and effects, against unreasonable searches and seizures, shall not be violated... -Fourth Amendment to the U.S. Constitution...
...rates for local mailing of newspapers would shoot up 250%; books and records, 96%; third-class bulk advertising, 35%; and fourth-class parcel post, 67%. The inevitable result, say Wenner's critics: use of the mails would drop, Postal Service revenues would fall, and the entire system would be in a deeper hole than it is now with its $800 million annual deficit. The individual first-class user might save a few dollars a year. But, claims Coleman Hoyt, distribution manager of the Reader's Digest, the saving would be cancelled by increases for other classes of mail...
...foreign policy came in 1969 when the Nixon Administration made an agreement to return Okinawa to Japanese sovereignty, but his political position was soon badly shaken by a surprise shokku: President Nixon's rapprochement with China in 1971. A year later, Sato retired near the end of his fourth term in a mood of disappointment that was only partially lifted in 1974, when he was awarded the Nobel Peace Prize for his determined antimilitarism...
...news was equally glum on business and consumer spending. The Conference Board, a research group, reported that big manufacturers in the first quarter reduced appropriations for capital spending 9.4% below the fourth quarter of 1974, which was down 26% from the previous three months. That marked the steepest six-month slide in 17 years. For all this year, the Commerce Department announced, businessmen expect to spend $114 billion for new plant and equipment, a puny 1.6% more than in 1974. Such spending rose 13% in both...
...clef; the Dorothy who sang Over the Rainbow was the actress herself. "Frances never stopped trying to get home," they burble in a style that Rona Barrett might envy. Young Judy covers only the childhood of Garland's 47-year-long life and is only about one-fourth as egregious as Anne Edwards' Judy Garland (Simon & Schuster; $9.95). Author Edwards, an English film scenarist, belongs to the Ptolemaic school of cinema biography. In this genre, all global events are subordinated to the subject: "Frances Ethel Gumm, the future Judy Garland, was born on June 10, 1922, about...