Word: nationalizes
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...Democratic Party leaders are just as insistent. But Carter knows that his freedom of choice is limited if he does not want to shake business psychology. Even if he chose to dump Burns, he most likely would pick not a liberal but a moderate or conservative to administer the nation's supply of cash and credit. Among the choices being discussed this week by White House aides...
Shoppers who neglect to pay for their merchandise are criminals for all seasons, and their numbers are increasing at an alarming rate. The FBI reports more than 600,000 shoplifting arrests across the nation last year, nearly three times as many as in 1970, and the U.S. Department of Commerce estimates merchants' losses from thefts in 1976 at some $8 billion. In the past eight weeks police in Hialeah, Fla., have arrested six members of a band of shoplifters called the Chilean Commandos, trained in Fagin-type schools in Valparaiso and Santiago. South American rings have been collecting booty...
...England, the entire region has a population of only 6.8 million?little more than half of that of the other far corner of the country. Americans who live in cities or suburbs can look at large parts of the Northwest and glean a true idea of what the nation was like 50 or 100 years ago?a region where small-town accessibility and friendliness come naturally, where people seem to care more about who they are than what they have...
...cost in New York State). In the '30s the Federal Government began damming the lordly 1,210-mile Columbia River; the Grand Coulee, the Bonneville and 24 other dams in the system are the heart of a Northwest network that generates 43% of all the hydroelectric power in the nation, yet even that is not enough. Demand in the region is expected to double in 20 years. Problem: building more dams on the Columbia has been stopped for environmental reasons...
...former AEC chairman believes the atom is the answer. Ray argues that strict safety standards are being incorporated into the state's six nuclear reactors now planned or under construction ?including two at Hanford, site of the nation's first center to produce plutonium. Says she: "We are going to have atomic power as fossil fuels dwindle, so we may as well get used...