Word: leveler
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...meltdown. Water pouring into the reactor overflowed to form a 250,000-gal. lake on the floor of the reactor building. Some of this water, laden with highly radioactive products, was pumped into the plant's auxiliary building, a structure not designed to handle high-level radioactivity. Gases given off by this water were picked up by the plant's ventilation system and spewed into the atmosphere...
...companies, Carter called on Congress to enact a "windfall profits tax." It would skim off about half the $13 billion or so of extra revenue that oil firms stand to get as the price of domestic crude oil, which now averages $9.45 per bbl., rises to the world level. At the moment, that figure is $14.55 for OPEC oil, but Ecuador is now charging a premium price of $20.60 per bbl., and other producers are also levying surcharges on the basic OPEC price. Under Carter's plan, the proceeds of the oil tax would be funneled into an Energy...
...wage standard despite vigorous efforts by the Administration to force restraint. Last week bargaining resumed briefly only to be broken off again. When the talks first collapsed, April 1, the drivers were demanding an increase of 32% over three years. Though that would be well above the compounded guideline level of 22.5%, the Council on Wage and Price Stability (COWPS) seemed ready to exclude some benefit gains and pronounce an even 30% settlement to be within the standards...
More blacks are attending college now than ever, 1.1 million, or more than triple the number in 1966. One out of nine college students in the U.S. is black, double the level in 1966 and nearly the same as the proportion of blacks in the U.S. population as a whole. In families with incomes from $10,000 to $15,000, a higher percentage of blacks (21%) goes to college nowadays than whites...
STANFORD (11,000 students, 540 black). This academic year, over the opposition of minority students, the Stanford Medical School abolished a special admissions committee that processed minority applications. Students fear a further decline in black enrollment at the graduate level, down from 256 in 1973 to 183 this year. But the Supreme Court's decision supporting white Medical School Applicant Allan Bakke has discouraged protest. "Sign carrying would be sort of after the fact now," says one Stanford student. "I guess we'll just have to see how the new plan works...