Word: nationalizes
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...citizenry are now packed into the capital. The migrants come for the few available jobs, which are usually no better than the ones they fled. At the current rate of migration, Athens by the year 2000 will have a population of 6.5 million, more than half the nation...
...Real Paper is no longer radical and no longer collective, and neither are most of the nation's other so-called alternative, or underground, newspapers. Ten years after Woodstock-and nearly a quarter-century after the Village Voice was launched as an alternative to New York City's conventional dailies-the alternative press has become so established that it is very nearly Establishment itself. Gone for the most part are the radical polemics, scatological prose and serendipitously amateur design that were staples of underground journalism. In their place are entertainment listings, movie and record reviews, consumer buying guides...
...will add less than .2% annually to the rise hi consumer prices, the impact could in fact be much more severe. No one really knows to what extent inflation will be aggravated by potentially limitless price rises hi a commodity so basic to the economy as petroleum, yet the nation has no real alternative to freeing up the price of crude. It seems pointless for Washington to preach to the world about the need to conserve while at the same time maintaining artificially low prices that encourage waste...
Price controls also discourage American companies from drilling for crude in the U.S., and that inevitably boosts the nation's alarming dependence on imports, which now account for nearly 50% of the 19 million bbl. of crude that the U.S. uses each...
...high prices. Though cattle producers' prices were frozen, their overhead costs continued to rise. Many could not afford to feed their animals and had to sell off large numbers just to stay solvent. As more beef came onto the market, prices briefly fell. But the size of the nation's herds also plummeted from 132 million cattle in 1975 to the present 110 million -and prices rebounded with a vengeance...