Word: nationalizes
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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Unless rents are cut proportionally to reflect the landlords' lower tax bills, it is possible that you will see the first statewide renters' strike in the nation's history...
...been heralded as the most important civil rights case since Brown vs. Board of Education, the 1954 ruling that outlawed racial segregation in the schools and ultimately in all of American life. The nation had moved far in 25 years, but the goal of equality had remained elusive, and the question now before the Supreme Court in the case of Regents of the University of California vs. Bakke seemed infinitely perplexing: Is it fair to give some preference to blacks over whites in order to remedy the evils of past discrimination...
Writing six different opinions totaling 154 pages, the Justices were as torn by the issue as was the rest of the nation. The case had attracted 61 amicus curiae briefs, the most that had ever been submitted in the history of the court. "The Justices really agonized," said an inside observer. Three times the opinions were sent to the printer only to be pulled back for additions, deletions and revisions. The version finally made public was the fourth. Blackmun, in particular, had trouble making up his mind. Though he and Burger have often been paired as the Nixon-appointed...
Amid the boxy steel-and-glass skyscrapers of midtown Manhattan stands a colonnaded French palace of classical elegance. Adorned by Jules Coutan's sculpture Transportation, assorted stone flourishes and a neo-Renaissance portico, the 65-year-old Grand Central Terminal remains one of the nation's finest Beaux-Arts showpieces, a source of inspiration for students of architecture, and a place of sentiment for many of the 500,000 people who pass through it daily. For more than a decade, preservationists have fought to keep the terminal, and last week they won in the U.S. Supreme Court...
...Clamshell Alliance, a New England anti-nuclear group, has made Seabrook a nation-wide issue by sending speakers to civic and church groups, disseminating literature and by staging two large demonstrations at the construction site. The most recent demonstrations on June 24 and 25 attracted 18,000 protesters. The Alliance advocates alternatives to nuclear energy such as existing fossil fuels, solar and wind energies...