Word: nationalizes
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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President Jimmy Carter [Aug. 15] may not want any pomp and ceremony, only casual informality, connected with his term in the White House, but could he please grant the leaders of other countries who visit our nation the dignity of not being dragged upstairs to be presented to his darling daughter? More than enough already...
Certainly, Carter's handling of the Lance affair is of far greater importance to the nation than Lance's future. When Comptroller of the Currency John Heimann concluded his inquiry into Lance's conduct as a Georgia banker with the verdict that Bert had done nothing that warranted prosecution, Carter pounced on the report as if it were a clean bill of health. It was not, yet the President made a point of whipping down from Camp David aboard a helicopter and proclaiming before a nationwide TV audience, "Bert, I'm proud...
...President is predictable, Carter is especially dependent on a dexterous balancing of allies who have little, if anything, in common. These allies are bound to grow impatient with one another and especially with Carter. As that happens, Carter is bound to discover, as many have before him, that the nation's most powerful job can also be the loneliest...
Plainly, the nation is witnessing a new form of nomadness, already epidemic and spreading fast. Why? Even though the craze began in California, it is not necessarily incomprehensible. Many observers shrug off the outbreak of vanaticism as merely an acute fling of the gadabout restlessness always evident in America. Any Pop sociologist might be tempted to interpret the van binge as simply a bizarre elaboration of the American's longtime romance with the automobile. At one time, folklore attributed the increase in vans to newly liberated youth's need for a convenient trysting place; indeed, the current...
...breed: big (28 in. high, 120 lbs. to 150 lbs.), strong-boned and richly coated. In 1968, she paraded three Newfoundlands before the tuxedoed judges at the Westminster Kennel Club show in New York and walked out of the ring with three winners-a rare triple in the nation's most prestigious show. But Hilda Madsen is also a revolutionary. She is one of a growing number of dog breeders seeking to rewrite what have become often conflicting goals in their sport-meeting the flashy physical requirements of the show ring and preserving the instinctive and temperamental qualities...