Word: nationalizes
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...giving set new records for retail sales after several so-so years. Sales of toys and flowers were particularly strong. A survey of 40 state governments projects a budget surplus for 1978, and with the extra money comes a dedication to spend wisely. The old ills and excesses, the nation has learned, are too costly-crushing in economic terms and incalculable in human terms. Chicago's Cook County has spent $762,561 defending its public officials in lawsuits brought by the survivors of three Black Panthers gunned down by police...
...long will the nation's gentler, easier mood last? Few people are searching for the answer. Says Atlanta Assistant Store Manager Norbert Stanislav: "There is always some dark presence around the corner if you look for it, but nobody's looking for it." Hail tranquillity...
...witness stand and admitted that her only qualification was a 40-hour series of OSHA seminars. But Pinga is convinced that his fight was worthwhile. Thumping a thick tome of OSHA regulations, he declares: "If this book existed when my dad came to this country in 1906, this nation would still be a prairie. Now it's bureaucracy on top of bureaucracy. That's not America...
...Senate floor, New York's Daniel Patrick Moynihan assailed this racial nitpicking. "In the name of civil rights," he complained, "the Office for Civil Rights is mandating practices which would have appalled us a decade ago, practices which mindlessly violate the most fundamental principles of this nation as set down in the Constitution. Such practices evoke one image in our lifetimes above all others: the sorting out of human beings for the death camps of Hitler's Germany...
There is in all of this the welcome dismissal of the stultifying protocol that has kept nations and men starched and stiff and at arm's length for too long. There is a new understanding of modern tools?the jet plane, the telephone, satellites and television. There is, too, something more profound. Most of the men and women who preside over the affairs of this globe sincerely believe, despite their vast differences, that no people or nation or political party ever benefits from hatred, or ever really wins...