Word: nationalizes
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...last week he was named by President Jimmy Carter to become the new head of the Joint Chiefs of Staff. In an otherwise routine shift of three top-level military commands, Jones, 56, and the Air Force won an unexpected victory by gaining the two-year appointment to the nation's highest uniformed post at a time when traditional rotation policy would have turned it over to the Army. Jones will succeed another Air Force general, the controversial and talkative George S. Brown, on July 1. That is when Brown, who is ill with cancer of the prostate will...
What sets this tax season apart is the growing alarm in the nation at the size of the entire tax burden-about 34% of family incomes-including local property taxes, Social Security withholding and right on up to the federal bite, which is the biggest. While three out of four of those federal returns will ask for refunds, the hope of getting a little money back will often be dampened by the duty of computation ("My own return has driven me right up the tree," confesses a man at the U.S. Treasury...
...masterly television address to the nation after the center-right's stunning electoral victory last month, President Valéry Giscard d'Estaing vowed to take into account the desires of the 48.4% who had voted for the left. Specifically, he promised that his Cabinet would contain some new faces who would symbolize the need for social reform in France. But when Giscard unveiled his Cabinet last week, 25 of the 38 senior and junior ministers were old, familiar countenances...
Since this is the nation's only organized league, Harvard has itself an uncrowned national championship team. You would never anticipate the team's success, however, after seeing where they put the ping in their pong...
Covering a broad range of issues--from human rights to abortion to union-busting--Costanza told the crowd of about 100 that "the major problems in this nation are those which deny citizens their human dignity...