Word: nationalizes
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...vows of accelerated violence, and Syrian Premier's Hafez Al-Assad's rejection of the accord on its face. Perhaps it is unrealistic to expect Syria and the P L O to lay down their arms so suddenly. But it is equally unrealistic to ask Israel immediately to grant nation status to the West Bank, when some Palestinian leaders still seek the destruction of Israel...
...always prided itself on being the world's undisputed leader in technological innovation. Since World War II foreign demand for aircraft, computers, automated tools and other products of American labs and workshops could be relied on to provide a fat surplus in the nation's balance of trade. No more. Though the U.S. still retains an overall lead in total amounts spent on R. and D. and in numbers of new inventions, its chief economic rivals are expanding their research efforts at much faster rates. One consequence is becoming dramatically clear this year: because the U.S. no longer commands such...
...dividends the U.S. gets from these high-technology firms extend far beyond jobs. As economic engines of astonishing vitality, they are also churning out the export sales and tax revenues that the nation urgently needs. A recent survey of high-technology companies founded in the early 1970s showed that for every $100 originally invested in them, each firm on the average now returns each year $70 in sales abroad, $15 in federal corporate tax, $15 in personal income tax and $5 in state and local revenues...
Although Jews constitute only 3% of the U.S. population, 80% of the nation's professional comedians are Jewish. Why such domination of American humor? New York City Psychologist Samuel Janus, who once did a yearlong stint as a stand-up comic, thinks that he has the answer: Jewish humor is born of depression and alienation from the general culture. For Jewish comedians, he told the recent annual meeting of the American Psychological Association, "comedy is a defense mechanism to ward off the aggression and hostility of others...
...miles south of Aswan in what is now Egypt and the Sudan, had a rich culture as early as 3500 B.C., with a tradition and style of its own. Furthermore, there was a unified kingdom in Nubia as early as 750 B.C., making it the world's oldest black nation...