Word: nationalizes
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...tariffs, and most would not be aloft without them. The bargains have been brought about by President Carter's plan for the eventual deregulation of the airlines. As a first step, the CAB, in the past wary of cut-rate fares, has been approving almost all applications. The nation's twelve major and ten regional airlines of fer at least 26 separate bargain fares, under such catchy names as Chickenfeed and Peanuts...
...idea was as obvious as the mess created by a six-year-old tackling a bowl of spaghetti. If Holiday Inns sanitized and made respectable the once tacky motel, and McDonald's gave the nation hamburgers without heartburn, why couldn't the same techniques of standardization and mass marketing be applied to day-care centers for children...
...controversial decision to allow the joining of the nation's seventh (Jones & Laughlin) and eighth (Youngstown) largest steelmakers into what will become the third or fourth biggest clearly hinged on Lykes' doomsday prediction. That prophecy could have proved self-fulfilling, because customers, suppliers and creditors all began to abandon the company for fear it would collapse. Bell rejected his own in-house advice that Lykes could be saved and competition maintained by selling assets to raise cash. The weakness of the company, he said, "led me to conclude that Lykes faced a grave probability of a business failure...
...span of nearly 30 volumes, writing originally in Yiddish, Singer has resuscitated the Poland that existed before World War I and then, precariously, between the wars. He has peopled his land with the folk he knew when he was growing up among them, creating in the process a nation of characters. Their names have changed from book to book and story to story, but they have remained fixed in their variety: rabbis and sinners, intellectuals and simpletons, rationalists and mystics, world savers and fatalists. Singer's art has transformed them all into uncommon clay...
During World War II, the U.S. Government felt that any man healthy enough to run bases was fit enough to fight. The nation drafted or enlisted the best men from both major leagues, then told the teams to play ball. They complied by fielding a collection of players as unsuited for baseball as they were for battle. The old Washington Senators used Bert Shepard, who had one leg; the St. Louis Browns started a one-armed outfielder named Pete Gray. The Cincinnati Reds signed a pitcher who didn't have to worry about being drafted; Joe Nuxhall was only...