Word: nationalizes
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...13th Amendment, which abolished slavery in name, but did little else to support the rights of blacks. The real progress of the women's rights movement in America has been, and will continue to be, agonizingly slow. We are still an outrageously sexist nation, and there are only minor signs of change, and the feminist movement has by and large collapsed into a rather bizarre disarray. Yet 100,000 people marched in Washington to show their support for women's rights, and millions more must surely realize the sensibility of sexual equality. Here is a clear case of inertia holding...
...years in prison, five weeks after they were convicted of espionage, stealing government documents and feeding them to the government of the Socialist Republic of Vietnam. The two men admitted to stealing the documents, but maintained that their goal was to help normalize relations between the U.S. and the nation we bombed, defoliated and depopulated during the '60s and early '70s. True, they could have gotten life sentences--but the fact that they were convicted at all demonstrates that there are serious problems in the federal government and in the White House...
Again, this observation hardly rates as an intellectual or journalistic breakthrough, but it is still valid. The point simply struck home with an unusual force Saturday afternoon, perhaps as a result of the contrast between a pleasant, idle afternoon and the suddenly not-so-distant mess of the nation, brought into focus by the daily paper...
...Charles Fentress, of the Association of American Medical Colleges (A.A.M.C.): "Government loans and scholarships are drying up, and the soaring cost of medical school has to be a deterrent." Tuition at Georgetown University School of Medicine has risen to a staggering $12,500 a year, the highest in the nation. At other schools, says the A.A.M.C., tuition and fees run from $2,200 to $9,150 a year. Add to that the cost of room, board and books, and the burden becomes even more formidable...
...Baedeker of the nation's most wretched hoosegows would have to include Little Greystone, part of the Alameda County jail complex in Pleasanton, Calif. Once a model prison, that Kafkaesque wooden barracks has in the past decade or so become a cesspool of rapes, beatings and illnesses. A U.S. district court in 1972 declared conditions there a violation of the Constitution's ban on cruel and unusual punishment...