Word: nationalized
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...almost unbelievable 11% in Mervin Field's California Poll. The gasoline lines that seemed to be lessening in California began appearing in New York. A new round of Middle East oil price increases heralded still worse days ahead, both in the gas lines and for the nation as a whole (see ECONOMY & BUSINESS...
Apparently without any new ideas for confronting the nation's economic troubles, Carter did his best to sound confident. At a press conference, his 50th since taking office, Carter declared that he had "no intent to back down" on the Administration legislation blocked in Congress. He added that he is undismayed by the stampede among Democrats to draft Ted Kennedy as their candidate for President in 1980: "No President can expect to have unanimous support." His "difficult" decisions on energy, inflation and foreign policy, Carter said, have cost him votes, "and if I should ever modify my positions away...
...problems, which were anticipated ten years ago and articulated in a report by Dean Rosovsky earlier this year, remain the focus of concern for GSAS administrators and individual departments. Besides the more general considerations affecting the quality of the nation's graduate education, GSAS students and Faculty also spent this year discussing internal administrative problems peculiar to Harvard. No group initiated substantial changes, because "change at the GSAS is like a slow-moving ship," says Edward L. Keenan '57, dean of the GSAS. But administrators and students have clearly maneuvered into positions from which to take action next year...
...Erlenborn notes that the "tenacles of the federal government are everywhere." Erlenborn believes establishing a Department of Education threatens local diversity and control over course and textbook content. "The tentacles will be stronger and reach further," he warns ominously. "The Department of Education will end up being the nation's super schoolboard...