Word: nationalizes
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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Hard drugs are still available at Harvard, but they are neither as cheap nor as easy to obtain as they were a decade ago. In the late '60s Harvard Square earned a reputation as one of the nation's clearinghouses for drugs. Today the narcotic industry at Harvard has ducked underground, and most hard drugs are available only intermittently...
Green said, "Washington freed the nation, Lincoln freed the slaves, and Collari freed the Indians...
There was healthy news on other fronts. Despite the bitter winter weather, the nation's total output of goods and services was revised upward to an annual rate of 6.4% - adjusted for inflation - during the first quarter. The preliminary figure released in April - 5.2% - was some what less rosy because earlier guesstimates about the pace at which businessmen were rebuilding their inventories had been too low. Industrial production remained strong in April, rising by nearly 1%. Although housing starts, at an annual rate of 1.8 million, were down from the March level, they were still an impressive 35% ahead...
...inflation, trade imbalances and looming energy shortages. So grave has the problem become that seven major world leaders, including President Jimmy Carter, resolved at the London economic summit to "exchange experience and ideas" on youth joblessness, a formal recognition that the issue has got too big for any one nation to handle...
That means, most significantly, that the U.A.W. will continue to uphold the Reutherian philosophy of pursuing social goals no less fervently than higher wages. The union has long championed national health insurance, and both Ted Kennedy and Jimmy Carter dropped by to affirm their own commitment to that goal (see THE NATION). For all their dedication to social welfare, however, auto workers are among the world's most privileged wage earners; Kennedy quipped at the convocation that just about the only paid holiday the U.A.W. does not get is Groundhog Day, "and if I know Leonard...