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...mid-1970s, Yergin was a post-doctoral research fellow at the Center for International Affairs at Harvard where he first became interested in energy questions...
Until the mid-1970s, a man's assault on his wife was considered only a misdemeanor unless he could be convicted of attempted murder, Browne said. Restraining orders were not available for abused wives, and marital rape was not considered a crime...
...Republican view sees the cost of capital as the crucial force in economic growth. To lower these costs and thus induce investment, he would use the powers of government to cut the tax bite on venture capital. But this direction has been tried before with little success. From the mid-1970s until the 1986 tax-reform act took effect, the tax burden on capital was reduced, but the rate of growth of investment during those years was half of what it was in the 1950s and 1960s...
From 3 percent in the mid-1970s, the number his risen to around 20 percent in recent years, Law says...
...silicone breast-implant scandal may, however, change that relationship. Anderson's own trust in the system was shattered on Dec. 12, when he sat down and read scores of Dow Corning documents, including 17 internal memos dating as far back as the mid-1970s, about silicone-gel breast implants. The information surfaced during a liability suit in Michigan. When he finished, Anderson wrote and hand-delivered both the documents and an urgent letter to the FDA demanding that all such implants be promptly removed from the marketplace. "This appeal is not made lightly," Anderson wrote. He noted that Dow Corning...