Word: nationalizes
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...paradox that in the midst of general prosperity, America has spawned a hard-core group of disaffected people-an all but lost generation of men and women almost permanently without jobs, without education, and without hope of getting either. Our cover story, written by George Russell and researched by Nation Reporter-Researchers Anita Addison, Edward Adler and Agnes Clark, examines this under class and the overwhelming problems that set it apart even among the poor...
Because costs are lower, these stations can chip 4? to 5? off the price of a gallon of gas (current nationwide average: 63? per gal.), attract more customers and sell more fuel. Almost half of all the stations in the nation are now self-service, v. only 8% three years...
Italian guesstimates are that nearly 5 million "unemployed, retired and sick" people-a fifth of the nation's total labor force-work full or part time at jobs that do not officially exist. Another 3 million are believed to moonlight regularly at unreported second and even third jobs. Entire families work at home assembling ball-point pens, making shoes, stamping out auto parts or upholstering furniture. Hospital nurses work after hours in clinics; cops and firemen do lucrative plumbing or electrical work in their spare time. Many wages are substandard: as low as $60 a month. But there...
...have written his own stuff, reading from a TelePrompTer what others have gathered," is no big deal. How accomplished does one have to be to read switch cues like "President Carter today signed a bill creating the Department of Energy. Bob Schieffer has that story"? Yet the nation's celebrated top anchormen have held office, and popularity, for longer terms than Presidents. The fact is, their best qualities are only on stand-by reserve when they read the evening news. It is on other occasions-in knowledgeable ad-lib coverage of political conventions, space shots, presidential funerals-that they...
...dramatic leap toward reality last week. Like a fledgling leaving the nest for the first time, NASA's new space shuttle OV (for Orbiter Vehicle) 101 cut loose from the 747 mother ship and maneuvered safely to earth on its own. As NASA officials-and much of the nation via television-watched with ringers crossed, the shuttle, christened Enterprise after the spaceship in Star Trek, swooped in graceful arcs down through the clear desert air over Edwards Air Force Base in California. Then, as if both ship and crew had been doing it forever, it touched down perfectly...