Word: nationalizes
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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Since the price of coffee began percolating out of control ($1.25 to $4-plus per retail pound in 22 months) some of the nation's favorite brew has become really hot. According to an FBI spokesman, "hijackers like to keep up with the times; our biggest headache now is coffee." The FBI knows of 15 hijackings, in which the total take was $1,728,000 worth of beans. All this black (or, if you prefer, cream and sugar) market activity occurred in the Port of New York, which handles nearly half the 2.6 billion pounds of beans...
Routinely, the state-run TV network in Ethiopia puts on a prime-time horror show intended-quite literally-to terrify the nation's 28 million inhabitants. Shots of racked bodies of political prisoners tortured to death, corpses of dissidents shot down by mobs of armed vigilantes-they all flicker across the screen as evidence of the ruthless determination of what may be one of the most brutal and arbitrary regimes in power today...
That progression is no fall from grace. At a time when state and local governments are spending almost as much money and employing as many citizens as Uncle Sam does domestically, Peirce, 45, has emerged as the only national chronicler of grassroots America. In his weekly column, which appears in as many as 140 papers (among them: the Los Angeles Times, Baltimore Sun and Boston Globe), he discusses such topics as local energy-conservation schemes, the unionization of public employees, a freeway-turned-park in Seattle and redlining in city neighborhoods. His stories can have wide impact. A column...
Geographer Henry Gannett, who mapped much of the American West, wrote those words at the turn of the century. But even today, Alaska's scenic grandeur almost defies description. Larger than Texas, Montana and California combined, the 49th state possesses more coastline than the rest of the nation. It boasts North America's tallest mountain, the nation's third longest river and, in addition to Alaskan brown bears, the world's largest land carnivores, a glacier the size of Rhode Island. Purchased from Russia in 1867 for a paltry $7.2 million, Alaska also contains some...
Udall believes that the legislation now before Congress offers the U.S. a unique opportunity to preserve these and other valuable lands as a part of the national heritage. Says he: "Never before in our history have we been able to set aside areas of this magnitude." Other conservationists, including spokesmen for the 16-organization Alaska Coalition, endorse his views. "This is it," says Jack Hession of the Alaska chapter of the Sierra Club. "This is the nation's last chance to set aside meaningfully large areas of Arctic and subarctic lands. It doesn't make sense to sacrifice...