Word: nationalizes
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...called the Golden State for nothing. California is becoming the nation's leading proving ground for solar energy, accounting for nearly half of all U.S. solar sales of $190 million last year. The state has plenty of sun and plenty of activists who see nonpolluting solar energy as the benign antidote to nuclear power. It also has a generous law-put through by Governor Jerry Brown?that allows 55% of solar costs, up to a maximum of $3,000, to be written off as a credit against state income taxes. The resulting demand has persuaded more than half of America...
Even if breakthroughs are made, solar power probably will be able to provide no more than 5% of the nation's energy needs by the end of the century. But there is potential for more over the longer term, now that an increasing number of large companies are putting more effort and more money into research and development. Unlike conventional centralized power stations with their huge distribution networks, photovoltaic cells can be located where the demand is and, in time, can probably be mass-produced...
...more of the bounce seemed to be taken out of Carter's guidelines program in Akron last week. Negotiators for the 55,000-member United Rubber Workers, a strike-prone union whose contract expired last week, claimed that they had come to a tentative agreement with three of the nation's four major tiremakers. The deal, according to the union, would include raising the current average wage of $8 an hour by $1.14 over three years, increasing the COLA clause and pensions, giving a Christmas bonus to retirees and providing for retirement after 25 years...
Newspapers responded more slowly to changing conditions, and two of the slowest were the Washington Post and the Los Angeles Times. The Post had the advantage of its location in the nation's capital, but the paper could not seem to translate the wealth of its new owner, Eugene Meyer, into a voice that anyone but die-hard subscribers would hear. On the other hand, the Los Angeles Times spoke loud and clear, but it was far from the center of things, and its deafening bias against any news or newsmaker that might threaten the interests of the Chandlers...
...overworked, deskbound, interested more in pleasing their peers than their audiences; and determined to keep their reports free of bias. Gans did, however, see them subconsciously defer to a set of "enduring values": democracy, responsible capitalism, individualism, moderation. He concludes that the press pays too much attention to the nation's Government and corporate ruling elites, and too little to the poor and powerless. As one remedy, he proposes a national Endowment for News to ladle out Government money to improve coverage of ordinary folk, and even to buy TV sets and newspaper subscriptions for poor people. That scheme...