Word: nationalizes
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...industrial shutdowns and power blackouts as the oil runs out. Even conservative estimates are that the U.S. will need 390 nukes to provide at least 27% of its electric power by 2000. The time to start building these plants is now. Otherwise, they will not be ready when the nation really needs them. - Peter Stoler
...plagued by frequent temblors, it has suffered only two major earthquakes in recorded history: the fabled and destructive San Francisco quake of 1906 and an even bigger shock in 1857, which rocked the then sparsely populated southern and central parts of the state. Now that California is the nation's most populous state, it could suffer incalculable damage and thousands of deaths in a major quake. Such a quake will almost certainly happen and, says a young California scientist, probably within the next half-century...
...result, it has about it a realistically antiheroic air that is rare enough in any movie about any war, and a grubby brutality that matches memories of the news film that came out of Southeast Asia in the '60s and did so much to disgust the nation with U.S. involvement there...
Somoza said he unleashed his military forces on Esteli and three other major cities to save the nation from communism, which he claims is being imported by Cuban-trained Sandinista guerillas...
...nation-wide rebellion was spearheaded by the Sandinista National Liberation Front, a group named after a Nicaraguan rebel of the 1930s. The group was formed by a Cuban-trained Marxist, Carlos Amador, who was killed by Somoza's troops about two years...