Word: nationalized
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...doom." A decade ago, he was $250,000 in debt after his speed-reading schools failed and he had to declare personal bankruptcy. Today he estimates his net worth at $600,000 and reports that he has paid off all but three of his creditors. Says Ruff: "This nation is ripe to be manipulated by a powerful personality. I am appalled at the ease with which I am acquiring a following...
...Christopher Street. The anti-Viet Nam, civil rights and women's rights movements all helped galvanize gays into thinking that they, too, could make a claim on society for recognition of their basic rights and point of view. Since then, the gay rights movement has impressed the nation's consciousness strongly enough to gain an ironic tribute: the rise of an alarmed, organized and vehement opposition that includes fundamentalist churches...
...forbid discrimination in jobs, housing, public facilities or federally aided programs on the basis of "affectional or sexual orientation," as well as race or religion. It has little chance of passage this year. In the future, each side will probably win a vote here and there, but in the nation as a whole the gays and the anti-gays seem to have fought each other to a political standstill...
...result, while the gay rights movement is definitely moving ahead, the life-styles of homosexuals vary widely throughout the nation. Some examples...
...every dreary or rambunctious pupil is a genius, by any means. About 3% of the nation's students are thought to be gifted, measured either by intelligence tests or a special flair for subjects such as mathematics or foreign languages. Special programs for gifted students receive only token funding compared with programs for the handicapped and disadvantaged. Illinois, for example, spends $740 per child to educate its 220,000 handicapped, but only $40 per child for its approximately 70,000 gifted students. The disparity is largely due to the notion that the gifted will flourish on their...