Word: nationalizes
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...determined to catch his man. And, amazing in an age where the South Koreans owned Congress and the Nixon gang made money off Watergate, there could be no fix. When it came to Theo Kojak, the Knapp Commission was out-to-lunch. He just couldn't be bought: the nation's last honest cop. Maybe the nation's last honest man. And what added to his luster was his incredible omnipotence; Kojak simply never made a mistake. He might be wrong for 59 minutes but in the last minute of the show he'd figure out everything. Never wrong, never...
...historical foreshadowings, Galbraith describes Keynes's lonely stand in opposition to the reparations clauses of the treaty ending World War I. Keynes, with the clanvoyance that earned him a fortune speculating on foreign currencies, foresaw precisely how Europe would try to exact more reparations from Germany than the defeated nation could afford to pay, an impossibility that would lead to Germany's depressed hyper-inflation, and to Hitler. Keynes lambasted the parties to the peace: Wilson, "the blind and deaf Don Quixote" and Lloyd George, a "goat-footed bard." In response, the English establishment ostracized Keynes, criticising...
...first coal slurry pipeline was used in London in 1914. Currently, the only one functioning in the U.S. is the Black Mesa Pipeline, which runs 273 miles from Kayenta, Ariz., to the Mohave Generating Station in southern Nevada. But since pressures are sure to mount on the nation's coal delivery system, four other slurry pipelines are in various planning stages, all in the West or Southwest...
...companies that are expanding, and the maximum benefit to any one company is $100,000; thus the credit is of little use to the biggest companies that hire the most workers. Indeed, the Administration estimates that the credit will help employers of only about a third of the nation's labor force-not enough to make a substantial dent in the jobless rate...
...Last week a House-Senate conference committee approved a bill that, among other things, would appropriate $9.3 billion for job-creating programs, including public service employment and youth-training plans. That still leaves the question of whether what is left of the stimulus program is enough to cut the nation's jobless rate below 7%. Administration policymakers insist that it will. But if the economy does keep recovering it will be as a result of its own vitality rather than of any major prod from Washington...