Word: nationalizes
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...independentist argument--Levesque objects to the term 'separatist'--begins with the fact that Quebec is a distinct French and Catholic cultural entity or nation within Canada. It is a culture with a unique heritage that remains insulated from North American mass culture by its linguistic shell. The protection of this culture, and of the French language which serves as its medium, is understandably a major concern for Quebeckers, and for Prime Minister Levesque...
...immediate costs of independence are difficult to assess. Larger, better integrated economies are usually more attractive to investors than smaller economies. Similarly, the political stability offered by a larger nation is often preferred to the greater political instability of smaller units. But the basic handicap which a post-independence Quebec would face lies in the very constitution of the Parti Quebecois...
...regain its stature. With some $400 billion in greenbacks now in foreign hands, an overseas rush to Wall Street would send stocks up sharply. Whatever happens next, the market's behavior last week ought to give Washington some idea of how investors are prepared to respond if the nation ever gets a sensible energy program and an effective policy to fight inflation and prop the dollar...
...high-stakes business sit up and listen, carefully. His record for earning money is awesome. Starting back home in North Carolina in 1934 with a down payment of $30 for a secondhand pickup truck, McLean built a substantial trucking concern and made millions. With additional backing from Ludwig, whose National Bulk Carriers operates supertankers, McLean founded Sea-Land Service, Inc., which grew into the nation's foremost containership operation. In 1969 he sold Sea-Land to Reynolds Tobacco for about $500 million. Then through his solely owned McLean Securities Inc., he invested in a life insurance venture and real...
...remarks that the husband was crazy to make the exchange. After a decade of tending barricades, Jane Fonda, now 40, has emerged as a fascinating actress and a forceful, attractive woman. Harper's Bazaar, which ought to know about such matters, this month published its list of the nation's ten most beautiful women; none is under 30.* It is painful to remember that 16 years ago Marilyn Monroe killed herself perhaps because, among other things, she could not bear turning...