Word: nationalizes
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...Statistics estimates that an additional 12 million women will be added to the labor force by 1990 v. 10 million men. Already, more than half of all women aged 20 to 64 either hold jobs or are seeking them, and their rush into the labor force has aggravated the nation's unemployment. More than 5 million women are now employed in blue-collar jobs, amounting to 18% of the total in that category...
...future looks equally inviting. In the nation's graduate business schools, one student in five is a woman. In law and medicine, the proportion is even higher: one in four...
...State Department official calls it one of Washington's "most complex relationships." On one side of the ledger, the Shah symbolizes much that the Carter White House opposes: royal posturing, human rights violations, prodigious arms spending and an oil price hawkishness. But he also rules a nation that is strategically important to the U.S., both because of its military geography and because of its oil. Moreover, he has done a great deal to advance Iran's standard of living and international prestige. Like the two skilled politicians that they are, Carter and the Shah reached a compromise...
...main reason for Kirbo's decision is money. In 1975 Carter earned almost $120,000 from Carter's Warehouse, whose annual gross revenues hover around $1 million. Now harder times have come. Drought has savaged the nation's peanut crop, and business at the Carter plant is down 15% from last year. Billy Carter recently valued the business at $3.5 million, which would make the President's share worth roughly $2.3 million. As for an asking price, Kirbo says, "I'm going to get as much as I can. It will be strictly a cold...
...House voted to retain oil and gas price controls and increase energy taxes-two important aspects of the Carter plan. The Senate yielded instead to arguments by the oil industry that deregulation of prices would give oil and gas producers the incentive to increase production and keep the nation from undergoing energy shortages in the years ahead...