Word: nationalizes
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...British colonization was a Pyrrhic success. To a great extent, British policy failed in Ireland and continues to fail in Northern Ireland. To be specific, it is the English who have failed. As a nation, they have never understood "those impossible people," the Irish, nor truly cared to, and the Irish dislike of the English is legendary. At every turn of English policy towards Ireland--with Essex, with Cromwell, with the 'black and tans' (infamous British in the war of independence)--there is ceaseless bloodshed, rebellion and repression...
...Governmental Organization participants joined in solidarity with our struggles and goals as well as in condemnation of the policies of the Western Hemisphere countries. The world must no longer listen to Jimmy Carter's oratories on the importance of human rights, when in fact he governs the nation that has been most successful in human rights abuse. South American governments follow the North American lead; documents show their concern for human rights to be a travesty. Indigenous populations are unified. Colonialism is destined to lose the battle for land to the peoples and cultures that are native to this earth...
Winona La Duke Westigard '80 is a citizen of the Ojibwa Nation. She now serves as vice president of the American Indians at Harvard and is a staff member of the International Indian Treaty Council...
According to the Labor Department, the measure will not noticeably aggravate the nation's persistent inflation problem. It is expected to add no more than $2.2 billion, or about .4%, to employers' wage bills next year. The legislation will, however, have at least a moderately adverse effect on unemployment. The department reports that about 90,000 people will not be hired next year because the higher wage is certain to discourage some employers from taking on additional employees. That is bad news for unskilled youths, especially black teenagers, whose jobless rate is now 37.4%. Says Murray Weidenbaum...
Offing the pig is only a minor goal of Goldman's National Stuttering Project, which was organized last year and has already expanded into 15 chapters in California, Oregon and Washington. The fledgling N.S.P. regards the nation's 2.6 million stutterers as another oppressed minority and hopes to weld them into a potent lobbying group. "We don't want special treatment, we just want neutrality," says Goldman. "This is what blacks and women have been insisting on, and we want...