Word: nationalizes
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...about time a major nation has realized the potential of a woman. Congratulations, Margaret Thatcher...
Florida ends the nation's moratorium on executions...
Spenkelink's death intensified the national debate that has long raged over whether capital punishment deters crime and should be retained or is a cruel and unfair form of revenge that ought to be abolished. Sociologists have never definitively answered the question, but the views of the American public, aroused by violent crime, seem clear: polls show that nearly two-thirds of the people favor capital punishment. Accordingly, after the U.S. Supreme Court ruled in 1972 against the arbitrary way in which capital punishment was imposed, 34 states have rewritten their death penalty laws to conform with the court...
...nation's gasoline situation is beginning to resemble a good-news-bad-news joke. The good news: the shortages that appeared menacing in early May have eased, just in time to promise that the majority of motorists setting out on Memorial Day drives could find enough fuel to get home again. That is also the bad news: the improvement is likely to lessen pressure on the Administration and Congress to work out a coherent energy strategy. On the Administration side, the Department of Energy continues to go through a startling series of switches on gas policy. Congress...
...thanks to either, gasoline lines in panic-stricken California dwindled dramatically last week. Waiting times averaged only 20 minutes, and at a few stations there were no lines at all. As the weekend began, supplies were still tight and inconveniences abounded in much of the nation. Motorists stopping at gas stations along New Jersey's Garden State Parkway were restricted to $3 maximum purchases, which put little more than three gallons in their tanks and would move gas guzzlers a mere 30 miles. But in resort areas from Cape Cod to Michigan's Upper Peninsula, enough gas appeared...