Word: nationalizes
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...question was: Go where? Once again the strike had turned into a cliffhanger, with the nation waiting to learn whether the 165,000 members of the United Mine Workers of America would vote this Friday to ratify the pact, which contains more generous provisions for health care and pension benefits, or send their negotiators back to the bargaining table...
...company negotiators were mostly bureaucrats." In any event, after the miners rejected the pact, the B.C.O.A's bargaining was turned over to Nicholas Camicia, 61, chairman of the Pittston Co., and Stonie Barker Jr., 51, president of Island Creek Coal Co. Although their firms rank among the nation's five largest coal companies, Camicia and Barker started out as deep-pit miners. Said Camicia: "I've been in the mines all my life, so I understand the people. I'm one of them...
...Soviet conventional forces, which could be used "for political blackmail and could threaten our vital interests," the President vowed: "We will match, together with our allies and friends, any threatening power through a combination of military forces, political efforts and economic programs. We will not allow any other nation to gain military superiority over...
...that the dapper 74-year-old legislator is a prime target of a federal influence-peddling investigation. Indeed, coincidentally on the eve of the dinner, the Justice Department released an affidavit in which David Marston, the former U.S. Attorney in Philadelphia whose dismissal by the Carter Administration created a national controversy, predicted that Flood was "certain" to be indicted. But the closest anyone at the Genetti came to bringing up Flood's troubles was when County Commissioner Edmund Wideman chastised the nation's press for "unfair" coverage of the Congressman...
...increase was needed to rescue the Social Security system, which was rapidly going bankrupt. But the boost outraged many Americans, especially those who pay the maximum levy for Social Security ($1,071 this year) and resent the fact that they are paying an increasingly large share of the nation's taxes. According to the Treasury Department, the most affluent households-those with annual earnings of $17,000 or more-received half of the nation's personal income in 1976 but paid 70% of all federal, state and local taxes, up from 68% in 1970. Next year the maximum...