Word: national
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...bestowed upon this country. He was dangerous, not to be trifled with. To his door can be attributed the cause of more sorrow, misery, and disease than any other single factor in American life. The war only too clearly showed there is no place for him in a serious nation. By cutting out the heart of the cancer, only can the cancer be cured. The necessary operation has been performed...
WITH considerable unhappiness, moneymen still vividly recall the episode in the late summer of 1966 that came to be known as "the credit crunch." Restricting the nation's money supply in order to slow a rapid price rise, the Federal Reserve Board acted so decisively that the financial markets reacted with hysteria. Interest rates rose rapidly, the Dow Jones average sank 25%, and many lenders were so short of funds that it became extraordinarily tough for corporations to borrow...
Through the A.L.A., the nation's two largest unions agreed to work together toward goals that they might not be able to achieve alone. For Reuther, frustrated in his efforts to make national policy through the A.F.L.-C.I.O., the linkup provides a base of 3.6 million members and a podium from which to advance his ideas. Last week he reiterated his call for national health insurance, tax reform and organization of community action groups to speak for the poor and the black. For the Teamsters, the alliance offers a much-needed aura of respectability. The Teamsters' acting president...
...members and the U.A.W.'s 1,600,000 will each have to contribute 100 a month, giving the alliance operating funds of $4.3 million a year. The organization will also have tremendous muscle to back up its demands. The U.A.W. has the power to paralyze one of the nation's major industries, and the Teamsters can tie up virtually every segment of U.S. industry by stopping the trucks...
...program called Operation Wildfire, is immediately dispatched to a sealed-off underground laboratory in the Nevada desert, where both survivors and the capsule are brought. There the specialists attempt to track down the unknown microcosm, identify it as a source of contamination, and produce an antidote. Meanwhile the entire nation is placed on a biological alert...