Word: nationalizes
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Justice Department officials rate the city's police force "the most brutal in the nation. A local watchdog organization called the Public Interest Law Center of Philadelphia (PILCOP), set up two years ago with federal money, has logged more than 400 complaints about brutality so far his year. Reviewing 432 claims over a one-year period, PILCOP found that 54% involved blacks, although they account for just 35% of the city's population. From 1970 through 1974, another PILCOP study revealed, cops shot 236 people, killing 81 of them; half of those were unarmed. In researching a series...
Last week Fukuda announced a much bigger, $7.6 billion program of spending and loans, mostly for housing, superhighways, express trains, local transportation and sewer systems. To lower unemployment, Fukuda proposes retraining laid-off workers and granting as yet unspecified hiring incentives to employers. In addition, the nation's central bank would lower interest rates slightly to encourage business spending. All that, said Fukuda, should boost the annual growth rate to 6.7% by next spring, from 5.9% forecast currently, ease unemployment and stem the tide of bankruptcies, now running at 1,500 a month...
Another problem is where to find diesel fuel; fewer than 5% of the nation's gas stations carry it. The diesel still emits more and blacker smoke than a gasoline engine-although, quite surprisingly, the smoke contains fewer polluting hydrocarbons and less carbon monoxide than gasoline exhaust. Finally, there is the matter of price: though quotations have not been firmly fixed, GM expects its diesel cars to sell for $750 to $840 more than an Olds powered by a conventional engine. Is there, nonetheless, a market? Probably. Mercedes-Benz introduced passenger diesels...
Ever since New Deal days, the Brookings Institution has wielded immense influence in Washington's corridors of power as the nation's pre-eminent liberal think tank-to the discomfort of conservatives who respected its solidly researched studies of wide-ranging economic issues enough to wish that their side could produce equally good ones. Now it can, through the American Enterprise Institute for Public Policy Research. The Washington-based A.E.I., founded back in 1943, long languished in obscurity, but during the 1970s it has steadily gained enough intellectual weight to become a sort of Republican Brookings...
...transmission facilities. The utilities especially complain that "lack of timely and adequate rate relief (meaning approval of higher rates) endangers their ability to raise the $250 billion to $300 billion of new construction capital required in the next ten years. Also, the utilities foresee a fuel shortage. Meeting the nation's power needs, says the NERC, would require more than doubling coal output, to 1.3 billion tons by 1986. The utilities demand that the Government move faster in leasing federally owned Western land to coal-mining companies...