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Word: nationalizes (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1970-1979
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...possibility of some sensational new outrage by the Baader-Meinhof gang of political terrorists. Yet the tense atmosphere seemed to symbolize the fact that Carter is embroiled not only with the Soviets but also with some allies, namely the West Germans. Now he had come to attend a seven-nation economic summit conference and, coincidentally, to see if the Bonn-Washington coolness could be remedied...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Nation: Bending over Backward | 7/24/1978 | See Source »

...recognizing him, a White House official asked for his name. "John Rockefeller," he replied softly, not bothering to use his distinctive middle initial. Only after several more questions did the official realize that the tall, gaunt man before him was the senior brother of one of the nation's most powerful families...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Nation: The Shy Philanthropist | 7/24/1978 | See Source »

...school girls who face conscription after graduation demonstrated in Tel Aviv last week to protest making it easy for draft dodgers. Teen-agers throughout the country circulated petitions demanding equality in the conscription system and urging that religious girls be required to do some useful nonmilitary service for the nation. Unexpected support for the opposition came from the Premier's wife, Aliza Begin, whose two daughters, Hasya, 32, and Leah, 30, served in the Israel Defense Forces. "Why should my daughter be drafted, and someone else's not be?" she asked. "There's injustice in that...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: ISRAEL: Exemption for the Pious | 7/24/1978 | See Source »

...turf-preoccupied London bus driver became famous for tooling past passenger queues and rushing instead to the betting shops along his route. Not surprisingly, Gamblers Anonymous operates a 24-hour rescue service in Britain. Says the respected British scientist and public policy analyst, Lord Rothschild: "Napoleon called us a nation of shopkeepers, but I think we are a nation of gamblers...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: BRITAIN: In the Chips | 7/24/1978 | See Source »

...method. Runner's World magazine says that Kostrubala may be "a therapeutic messiah who will lead the mentally disturbed out of the desert." Writer Valerie Andrews, in her forthcoming book, The Psychic Power of Running, argues that weekend jogging clinics "could well be the basis for the nation's first grass-roots movement in community mental health...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Behavior: Jogging for the Mind | 7/24/1978 | See Source »

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