Word: growths
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...hottest growth industry in Washington these days is generated by the Freedom of Information Act. It soaks up millions of dollars, employs hundreds of civil servants, and is driving many of them to utter distraction. The law has brought out of "secret" drawers many illuminating facts about the Government and its manipulations, but it has also in vited misuse, abuse, overuse and a lot of silliness in the name of the public's right to know...
...policies that they had no role in formulating. The crunch issue was a proposed $1.5 billion loan from a consortium of Western countries and the International Monetary Fund. The conservative opposition accused Soares of yielding too easily to the IMF's insistence on such restrictions as low economic growth (1%), devaluation of the escudo and other austerity measures...
...bust of the Grateful Dead. Gushing lines of self-congratulation abound in the piece, such as "Ten years of Rolling Stone is the best history of the past ten years in America that I can think of." Or try this assertion on for size, if not downright smugness: "The growth of rock & roll journalism, which paralleled the growth of rock & roll, is a fascinating subject in itself...Nowhere has it been practiced better than in Rolling Stone..." it's true that Wenner's publication is several cuts above glossy groupie rags like Creem or Crawdaddy, but the self-evident really...
...translation seemed to be that the NLRB is simply fed up with Stevens and its antiunion attitudes that seem to anachronistically exemplify the South in its earlier, immature stage of industrial growth. Over the years, the board has found Stevens guilty of unfair labor practices 15 times and hit Stevens with $1.3 million in fines. Last summer a federal court of appeals took the unusual step of warning Stevens that any future violations would bring fat fines of $100,000 each, plus $5,000 for every day the violations continued. That was not really much of a threat; such fines...
...wedding) and Siamese Twins Chang and Eng. Brady's crystalline landscape shots capture the building of monuments in Washington and New York. The introduction and running commentaries not only chronicle Brady's techniques and career-they also illustrate the rise of photography in America and its growth in the hands of a genius...