Word: nationalizes
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...YEARS ago horror stories about the elderly flooded the national media. Pictures of retirees heading for the dog food section of the supermarket surfaced and a cry went out that the nation's social security system was going bankrupt. The cries are mute now, but the state of the nation's retirement income system remains a primary concern for the federal government, the increasing numbers of recipients of old age benefits, and the future contributors to the system...
...even now the social security system depends on the complex of private and public pension plans to provide adequate security for the nation's elderly. But that system also has its drawbacks; Harvard's own pension plan exemplifies the failings of plans throughout the country...
...almost ignore its grossly offensive depiction of the Turkish people. It is not until the very end of his long review that Mr. Contreras finally refers, as an afterthought, to what is a major (if not the major) theme underlying the movie: A hatred of the Turkish nation so blatant that it borders on racism. Throughout the film, the audience is treated to a sequence of violent and disturbing scenes where the Turks feature heavily as a nation of brutes and loonies. So stark is this characterization that one waits in vain for the appearance of at least one half...
...Contrer as makes it sound, this world is one where "sadism, greed, and madness" are clearly portrayed as the intrinsic characteristics of a country and its people. "Midnight Express" may be a compelling story of personal struggle, but this comes at the expense of dehumanizing an entire nation...
They had glamorous names like the Miracle Mile, Fashion Island and Greenacres. Away from decaying downtowns, offering ample parking space, often lined with shaded walkways, they were gleaming oases of retail chic among the growing, monotonous tracts of ranches and split-levels that spread out from the nation's cities after World War II. Now, more than a generation after the first sprawling shopping centers began sprouting up in suburbia, these great concrete meccas of merchandising are coming under increasing attack...