Word: nationalizes
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...nation is critically short of food, cannot import enough by rail, and needs additional supplies that can best be trucked in from South Africa through Zimbabwe-Rhodesia...
...plan, Kennedy said, would cost Americans "only" $35.7 billion a year net; he arrived at that figure by subtracting from the federal and employer tab of $63.8 billion the sum of $28.1 billion which he claims the nation would save in medical bills. On the same basis, Carter's plan would save $6 billion, reducing its net cost to $18.3 billion. The Senator claimed that the eventual cost of the fuller scheme that the President promised to work for would be $60 billion a year...
Meanwhile, the sanctions began breaking down in an unlikely place: the neighboring black African nation of Zambia, a sanctuary for one of the guerrilla groups, which last week held talks with the government of Zimbabwe-Rhodesia about opening their borders. Zambia's motive was one of desperate self-interest...
...from over. This week Burton's subcommittee will call Bond to testify about the DC-10's hydraulic system, thought to have played a critical role in the crash. Later, a House aviation subcommittee will begin hearings into the development of the plane that caused the nation's biggest air disaster. Properly conducted, the hearings may reveal a great deal about the weaknesses of the FAA, as well...
Chicago's sanitation engineers have dug themselves into a hole so deep that they are having trouble getting out. In 1976 giant mechanical moles began work on the largest public works project in the nation: 131 miles of tunnel shafts, reservoirs and pumping stations. The network was designed to drain off rainwater and thus combat sewer backup and subsequent flooding of basements and overflow into the area's reservoirs...