Word: nationalized
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...staff of TIME'S Nation section, the news sometimes seems to find a rhythm of its own. Often a story starts the week as an event of modest consequence and then unfolds into a major national controversy - and a cover story. So it went last week, as concern over the discovery of up to 3,000 Soviet combat troops in Cuba grew so intense that it threatened ratification of the SALT II agreement, strained U.S.-Soviet relations, and presented the President with a substantial diplomatic dilemma. Observes Otto Friedrich, senior editor in charge of Nation: "When U.S. Senators...
...attempt to open the tests to public scrutiny and to begin answering some of these questions is currently meeting stiff and unwarranted opposition. New York state this year enacted the nation's first "truth in testing" law requiring Education Testing Services (ETS) and other, smaller testing services to mail a student his corrected exam on request...
Eighteen months later, the bill, signed by New York Governor Hugh Carey and due to go into effect January 1, has forced Educational Testing Services (ETS), the nation's largest testing firm, to devote 50 full-time workers "just trying to cope," Mary Churchill, associate director of information for the firm, says that "coping" will probably mean a cutback in the number of tests given in New York, and an increase in the cost of the tests, perhaps for all test-takers, not just New Yorkers...
LONDON--Close to 100 demonstrators changed "Murder" as former Rhodesian Prime Minister Ian Smith arrived here yesterday on his first visit to Britain since the minority-ruled nation declared its independence...
Chaired by Foreign Secretary Lord Carrington, the conference is aimed at ending the guerilla warfare still raging in that country and at bringing about an acceptable transfer of power to the nation's black majority...