Word: nationalizes
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...kids were celebrating the first day of school almost two months after the last of the nation's other classrooms had hummed back to life. Vacation had blended into fall and Indian summer while the students waited for school to start. Leaves turned brown and fell to the ground. For 34 school days, nearly all Levittown's teachers had been on strike over wages, job security, fringe benefits, and their desire to retain special programs in the curriculum. Only that morning they had agreed to end the longest teacher strike...
...Above all," Frank B. Freidel, Warren Professor of American History, has said recently, "Kennedy was a man of his times." He was a Cold Warrior in a nation that continued to be fanatically anti-communist in the early '60s. He was a liberal who argued that Green Berets were a superior and more enlightened alternative to Eisenhower's simplistically dangerous theory of massive retaliation and the bigger bang for the buck. He was a moderate who refused to push civil rights legislation through a Congress dominated by southern conservatives. He was a radical who, for the first time since Lincoln...
...coat was of many colors, his house was of many mansions. There were mistakes--Vietnam, the Bay of Pigs, arguably the Missile Crisis. Yet there were positive steps forward--a move toward detente with the Test Ban Treaty, the recognition of a world of diversity and of a nation's right to neutrality, the moral acknowledgement that the situation of black people was a disgrace to the nation. If these "calmer days" are to bring us a clearer judgment of JFK, then the black must be seen with the white, with a good deal of gray in between...
Surely all citizens deserve the very best that the nation is able to provide. At the risk of simplifying things, it was this principle which was supposedly the overriding concern of the creators of the NHS... "that the physician should do his work without reference to the social, financial or racial position of the patient and that the necessary medical attention, preventive or curative, should be given without any question of fees arising...
...many spend far more than any other nation on health care, but in some respects its standard of health is surprisingly low. According to World Health Organization statistics, it ranks 15th among the developed nations for infant mortality and 17th in life expectancy for males. Yet the AMA claims that the present system provides "the best medical care in the world...