Word: lesses
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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Mathematician William M. Raike of the U.S. Navy's Postgraduate School in Monterey, Calif., and three associates from Seattle invented a gadget they call a "phasorphone." It scrambles voices on both ends of a CB radio or phone conversation and costs about $100, far less than similar devices already on the market...
Other European countries have learned to live more or less equably with the oldest profession. But in such matters the New World is less tolerant and straightforward than the Old. Although prostitution is officially a crime, the U.S. supports an estimated half-million hookers, while trying to put them out of business with an incredible hodgepodge of laws. Both in letter and spirit the laws entangle the states in ambiguous moral and constitutional questions, often with confusing results...
...trade?traffic in minors ?and to get prostitutes off the street. The city is still trying to enforce, with some success, the stiff, two-year-old antiloitering law (not coincidentally passed on the eve of the 1976 Democratic National Convention in New York City). Prostitution is somewhat less visible now. But the wording of the antiloitering law, which allows arrests for "repeated beckoning," is claimed to be unconstitutional. Once upheld by the New York State Court of Appeals, the law is being tested again by the New York Civil Liberties Union...
...industrial world toward more conservative tax, spending and money-supply policies aimed at spurring investments. As a result, he believes, the U.S. and other industrial powers have a good chance of coming out of "the malaise of the 1970s" into a long era of moderate but steady and less inflationary growth in the 1980s. Eckstein foresees some danger, but a rather pleasant one. Once the slowdown is over, he thinks, the economy will expand so rapidly through 1980 that by early 1981 "a safely re-elected Carter Administration"?or its successor?will be faced with the problem of slowing...
...negotiations, which are being held in Geneva, have dragged on and on. Despite a Dec. 15 deadline for a final pact, many of the thorniest issues still defy solution; they include not only the subsidy question but also such matters as the ground rules for trade between developed and less developed countries. The 500 delegates from 98 nations have been meeting daily at GATT headquarters near the old Palais des Nations, but they are unlikely to reach agreement before time runs...