Word: nationalizes
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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Interviewed by TIME Washington Bureau Chief Hugh Sidey and Correspondent Simmons Fentress, HEW Secretary Joseph Califano talked of past and present attempts to deal with the nation's enduring problem of poverty...
...killing them in the night, is a hackneyed figure of cheap thrill movies and crime pulps. But in New York, his existence is a chilling reality, terrifying hundreds of thousands of young women in and around the city, enraging public officials, and both fascinating and frustrating one of the nation's most sophisticated police forces. The elusive "Son of Sam," who skillfully wields a lethal .44-cal. Bulldog revolver, struck for the eighth time last week, slaying Stacy Moskowitz, 20, and blinding Robert Violante, also 20, as the two sat in a parked...
...quite yet. The six-nation International Cricket Conference (ICC)* was still battling to ward off Communications Tycoon Kerry Packer, 39, who lured away the game's brightest lights with promises of filthy lucre. That is a rare commodity in cricket, where even playing for England, a superstar can aspire to no more than $35,000 a year and a run-of-the-mill professional only $6,600 a season. Packer offered far better salaries and planned a televised international all-star series matching "the rest of the world" against a formidable Australian side...
...same argument put out by meat manufacturers in 1906 and auto manufacturers in 1965." To increase the pressure, a Nader group, Public Citizen Inc., last week shipped copies of a pamphlet entitled 10 Ways to Take On Your Local Bar Association to 50 consumer groups across the nation. The broadside urges formation of local watchdog units to monitor bar regulations, publication of legal directories with fee information, pressure on law firms for more pro bono publico work, and demands for lay voices in the disciplining of lawyers...
...nation's big energy companies did not know whether to laugh or cry last week. On the one hand, they were flooded with glowing second-quarter earning reports that testified to the industry's basic strength. But at the same time, they were besieged as never before by onslaughts launched by critics in the Carter Administration, Congress and consumer groups. At the very least, their opponents seek to place the companies under extremely tight federal scrutiny; at worst, they want to break up the companies into smaller-and almost certainly far less profitable-parts...