Word: nationalizes
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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WAGES AND working conditions in United States hospitals are frequently as depressed as those of any major U.S. industry, but until very recently the federal government, fearing to upset the nation's health care institutions, has been reluctant to support hospital unionization. Congress only brought hospital unions under the protection of the National Labor Relations...
Helms stood on very shaky legal ground as well. The oath he took as CIA director to protect the nation's intelligence secrets did not even begin to excuse his perjury before Congress. He need only have declined to testify on matters involving a conflict of these two oaths when he appeared on Capitol Hill; instead, Helms consciously chose to deceive the senators...
...critical right of Congress to exercise meaningful oversight of the nation's intelligence community has sustained a serious--albeit hardly fatal--blow in the wake of the administration's decision on Helms, and only a very tenuous silver lining could be discerned as the air cleared in Washington. As part of the bargain with Justice Department officials, Helms agreed to testify fully in any subsequent investigations pertaining to the entire CIA episode in Allende's Chile...
Almost unnoticed amid all this hullabaloo, the increases in interest rates that the Federal Reserve has forced have so far failed to check the growth of the money supply. In October the nation's money stock grew at an average annual rate estimated at 12%. That pace, if continued, could indeed be inflationary?yet the White House fears still higher interest would damage the recovery. That creates a nasty dilemma that will probably persist for some time...
...Fitzgerald's contention that American lives have no second acts. The tainted blessing of early success ("the victor belongs to the spoils") and a guilty sense that character is fate may have accounted for his bitter judgment. But the fact remains that the world's best-advertised nation of immigrants was built on second-even third and fourth-acts...