Word: nationalizes
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...recent expedition under the heading of "History and the History of Ideas," the leader noted "the difficulties of making national citizens out of family men" because their loyalties are so parochial. This somehow led to the aphorism that a sense of mission creates a nation rather than the other way around, and finally, after a few more turns around the table, to the paradox that in the Third World, the left is the staunchest defender of the sanctity of property...
...Tigers, ranked 12th nationally, are awsome. Led by Jay Lapidus, who is ranked seventh in the nation. Princeton has rampaged through 12 opponents mercilessly on the way to what it hopes will be its first unbeaten season in 20 years...
What is needed, of course, is an energy policy to lead the U.S. from its dependence on petroleum, especially imports. Energy Secretary James Schlesinger is probably too pessimistic when he warns that a severe global supply squeeze could come as early as the mid-1980s, but the nation will be in increasing jeopardy anyway. The threat is not that some day soon there will be much too little oil, but that consumers will have to pay ever more extortionate prices to get it. Says Guido Brunner, the Common Market's energy commissioner: "We have to realize that...
...cable. As soon as HBO went on the satellite he bought its service to offer to Teleprompter subscribers. "Before the satellite," he says, "we had to rely on bicycling tapes and film around the country. Suddenly the satellite made possible the idea of buying programming for the entire nation. We could offer new services and look to new sources of income." Teleprompter has invested heavily in earth stations for satellite transmission and now has 80 of them; in January it bought half of Showtime, HBO's rival pay-cable service...
...Harvard oarsmen paid particular attention to the margin of victory over Penn, as Yale, ranked number one in the nation to Harvard's two, defeated the Quakers by 13.4 seconds on the Housatonic River last weekend...