Word: lande
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...this land of government of the rich, for the rich and by the rich-would a solution darn well be found if it were the privileged senior citizens who were being terrorized...
...least ten of the 46 senior fellows at the Brookings Institution are assisting Carter in the takeover and some will land jobs in his Administration. Those who have worked with Carter include Charles Schultze, Budget Director under Johnson, who may wind up in Carter's Cabinet; Henry Owen, onetime chief of the State Department's Policy Planning Staff, who is a foreign affairs specialist for Carter; and Alice Rivlin, director of the Congressional Budget Office, who may head up Carter's Council of Economic Advisers. Then, too, there is Robert Roosa, chairman of the Brookings board...
...expected to rise to more than a billion tons by 1985, from 640 million tons in 1975. But achieving that goal will require some kind of compromise strip-mining legislation that would satisfy environmentalists (who fear that large-scale mining in the Western states would permanently deface the land and cause widespread erosion) without discouraging investment by the coal companies-a formula exceedingly difficult to devise. Moreover, scores of new mines will have to be opened in the East. To avoid health hazards, effective scrubbers-devices that remove dangerous sulfur fumes from the stack gases of coal-burning plants-must...
Other Harvard dons lurk over all the land...
...another "great" day eight years ago, Peru's leftist military junta took power. Shortly after this change came agrarian reform, closer Peruvian links with the Soviet Union, and the expropriation of U.S. copper and oil interests. The drop in food production after the land reform, however, sent high prices even higher, threatening the popularity of the government. As a result Juan Velasco, "the father of the Peruvian revolution," was replaced in 1975 by the less socialistic Francisco Morales. The Morales government tilts toward the center, encouraging foreign investment in Peru with better terms and repayment for expropriated holdings. Perhaps this...