Word: nationalizes
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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Anderson, who as of 1970 owned more land in the United States than any other individual, and owned one of the nation's largest cattle operations, has built a reputation based on his patronage of educational, medical and cultural institutions and his rapid rise to power in the energy field...
With two of its teams placed among the top five college debating teams in the nation, Harvard's Debating Club is hoping its strong performance of this season will win the National Debating Tournament title in April...
...enacting well-publicized legislation to combat organized crime. But what finally emerged was a watered-down version of a more stringent anti-crime bill, one that contained the very same discriminatory provisions that have for years made Arizona's penal system one of the most backward in the nation--stiff, mandatory sentences for blue-collar crime and lax provisions for organized, white-collar crime. The legislature also established a special task force to investigate organized crime, but the panel was given no force of law or full power to subpoena witnesses, and it quickly degenerated to exploring subjects like child...
That phenomenon is nothing new in American journalism. It is, after all, the John Wayne Gacys of this world who help keep most newspapers solvent. In this sense, the massive publicity surrounding the case is not particularly surprising. The Chicago press cannot disseminate its sensationalism across the nation in the same way New York does, but the ability to exploit the gruesome hasn't changed much over the years--even in college newspapers...
...purpose--giving unemployed people a job--fit into the results of the Project. Perhaps this explosion of creativity, and the Big Names that came out of it, had something to do with the way the basic need for relief--both in the Project itself and more generally in the nation--tempered artistic self-centeredness, even arrogance, to some extent...