Word: nationalizes
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...cover story was written from these detailed reports by Associate Editor George Russell, who was assisted by Betty Satterwhite, the chief researcher in the NATION section. We're particularly proud of this kind of article: a subtle, complex and human account of a special American experience...
...Corning, Action Line learned that since the first such column appeared in the Houston Chronicle in 1961, the idea has spread to some 400 papers, from the New York Daily News (circ. 2 million, the nation's largest) to the mighty Logansport (Ind.) Pharos-Tribune (circ...
...Consumer Survival Kit had so much trouble with her car that she declared publicly at another consumer conference that she would never again buy a General Motors product. A GM executive from Detroit called soon after to solve her problem. And there is the case of Esther Peterson, the nation's highest-ranking consumer-affairs official. An unfunny thing happened to her on the way to the Action Line Conference. She showed up at the Commuter Airlines counter at Washington National Airport, with ticket in hand and a confirmed reservation on the day's only flight...
...Hispanics' very numbers guarantee that they will play an increasingly important role in shaping the nation's politics and policies. Just as black power was a reality of the 1960s, so the quest for latino power may well become a political watchword of the decade ahead. Predicts Raul Yzaguirre, director of the National Council of La Raza (The Race), an umbrella group of Hispanic-American organizations: "The 1980s will be the decade of the Hispanics...
...speaking children; and, perhaps most cogently, that Hispanic students who speak mostly Spanish at school and whose parents speak mostly Spanish at home will never really learn to compete in American society as a whole. Cultural pride notwithstanding, this could prove a-fatal handicap in a specialized, highly technological nation where language skills are more important than at any other time in history. What is more, the perpetuation of a large subculture with little or no skill in English could lead to something the U.S. has so far managed to avoid: the rise of a nation-within-a-nation...