Word: nationalizes
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...balanced federal budget, and liberal oracles everywhere warn it would entangle the branches of government in a messy constitutional conflict. The convention method of amending the Constitution has remained unused ever since the Philadelphia convention wrote it in for the states to use against a Congress that ignored the nation's will. Under the process used for each of the 26 amendments now on the books, Congress proposed the change and three-fourths of the states ratified it. Article V of the Constitution does provide for an alternate method, under which two-thirds of the states ask Congress to call...
THEY SAID IT couldn't happen. Even after the old man died Christmas time, 1976, the Chicago Democratic Organization--the only remaining big-city political machine in the nation--pulled itself together under the sure hand and compromising nature of Michael A. Bilandic, a smooth party pro from Daley's own back-of-the-Yards ward. All the nascent fiefdoms popping up across town fell before the power of the new mayor and the still viable party machinery...
This past summer the National Educational Association (NEA) pressed for the splitting of the Department of Health, Education and Welfare into a separate Department of Education, a proposal supposedly motivated, if you listen to them, because of their great concern for our nation's children. They were notably hush about the fact that President Carter had promised them such a department, with a secretary most likely from among their own ranks, in return for their first endorsement of a presidential candidate in their history. And when you're talking about an organization numbering almost two-and-one-half million teachers...
...will insist that despite the pomposity of grandiloquent phrases about Human Rights and endless phrase-mongering about liberty and justice, one must always judge a nation by the quality of its humanism and the manner in which it answers these simple questions: Are your poor clothed and fed? Are your oppressed employed? Do they have access to free and high quality health care? Do they share in the fruits of your nation's bounty...
...nation prepared for Armageddon. Carter himself placed the call to Brezhnev. "How about a game of baseball?" he asked...