Word: nationalizes
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...Agreement with this argument," wrote Associate Justice William Brennan in the majority opinion, "would invalidate not just New York's laws, but all comparable legislation elsewhere in the nation. We find no merit...
...page OMB report offered some impressive figures. It said that Americans now spend 785 million hours a year filling out federal forms. The paper work annually costs the nation $100 billion-about $500 for every citizen. But, it went on, reductions in Government red tape since January 1977 have done away with enough forms to trim the nation's paper shuffling by 9.9%-a cut of more than 85 million hours, equivalent to, say, a year's work by 50,000 people...
Political Structure. Israel would relinquish control over the West Bank and Gaza and withdraw to its pre-1967 borders. As envisioned by the architects of United Nations Security Council Resolution 242, which clearly seems to call for this withdrawal, there would be minor adjustments in the armistice lines of 1949, which bisected towns and villages and otherwise imposed easily remedied geographic hardships. More extensive border changes favoring Israel would be allowed, of course, with Arab approval. At the end of a predetermined period-perhaps five years-the West Bank and Gaza would be formally incorporated as a Palestinian homeland with...
...down in the economy last week was the Commerce Department's trade figures for May. Having deepened alarmingly earlier in the year, the overall trade deficit showed a slight decline, largely as a result of a drop in steel imports. Still, petroleum imports jumped another 5.8%, reflecting the nation's still increasing dependence on foreign...
...Bates, now an executive at a San Francisco security agency, reckons that 80% of large U.S. firms have either started executive protection programs or are considering doing so. Scores of new firms specializing in executive safety have opened shop, and the big, old protection agencies are growing. Burns, the nation's second largest such firm (after Pinkerton's), reports that its executive protection business has doubled in the past year, and accounts for a sizable percentage of the firm's $200 million annual revenues. Other outfits, including makers of armored vehicles and surveillance systems, as well...