Word: nationalizes
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...area that Congress cut in this year's budget and one that might decline or even disappear in future years is the National Direct Student Loan program (NDSL), an alternative that offers students loans at 3 per cent interest, as opposed to the 7 per cent Harvard charges on its own loans. Across the nation, NDSL has been plagued by students defaulting on their loans, and Congress dislikes the program. Nor did a 60 Minutes expose of the NDSL's problems in the fall help its reputation. Next year, Harvard will receive $440,000 in NDSL funds, 26 per cent...
...pole vault competition at 17 feet, 3 inches, setting a new Ivy League, New England and Harvard record. The thinclad two-mile relay team of Adam Dixon, John Chafee, Thad McNulty and John Murphy finishes third. The five trackmen make All-American as the Crimson grabs seventh in the nation...
Others locate the blame in the nation's political and social leadership. According to Walter Dean Burnham, a political scientist at M.I.T.: "Most of us pretty much take life as it is given to us by others. For example, destroy local mass transit systems, promote suburban sprawl ... permit central cities to deteriorate into jungles and stimulate the automotive industry by every advertising trick known to man, and what do you get? A spread-out network of settlement, work, distribution and consumption which has become absolutely dependent on the automobile for its existence." Burnham will have none of the "pundits...
...transition to a future of scarcer energy is being made all the more painful by the manic, contradictory signals emanating from the Administration about fuel prospects. If the nation is in a state of indiscipline and division, it is probably not because of defective character so much as an immense bewilderment about the real dangers of the energy shortage...
Americans displayed many similar signs of indifference and disunity on the eve of World War II. Pearl Harbor galvanized the nation at last into comparative unity and necessary action. In fact, World War II may have been the last epoch when Americans acted in moral harmony with one an other. An overriding common necessity imposed sacrifices - rationing at home, service and possible death abroad - upon a people more or less unified in their perception of the evil to be conquered...