Word: nationalizes
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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These and a host of other equally shocking products are becoming increasingly common fare at porn shops and sex-oriented mail-order houses across the nation. They are part of the newest growth area pushed by the booming, billion-dollar pornography industry: child porn...
...Amendment problems, public pressure for some kind of law is likely to grow. Many Americans battling against child porn view their efforts as a last stand against the tide of pornography. Says California State Senator Newton Russell: "This is a reflection of the social and spiritual morality of this nation. If there is to be any reversal in the trend, the place to start is child porn...
...problem is a peculiarly difficult one that the U.S. political system and the American temperament are not well tuned to solve. Since the birth of the nation, energy and the United States have been almost synonymous terms: metaphorically, in the boundless vitality of the American people; literally, in the seemingly inexhaustible supplies of cheap fuel that made possible the transformation of a handful of impoverished colonies into history's richest nation. Frontier mythmakers celebrated the idea that Americans could summon limitless supplies of energy for whatever needed doing, most notably in the tales about Paul Bunyan, who could harness...
Domestic oil production in recent weeks has hit an eleven-year low. The nation last month imported almost half of its petroleum, leaving the economy dangerously vulnerable to embargoes or price gouging by foreign suppliers. The U.S. bill for imported oil shot up from $2.7 billion in 1970 to $34 billion last year, draining from the country purchasing power badly needed to create jobs. Yet the Nixon and Ford administrations were unable to devise plans that Congress was willing to accept for stretching out supplies. Nixon's Project Independence, aimed at making the U.S. self-sufficient in fuel...
When completed, the program is expected to run some 64 pages. Until Carter himself presents it to Congress, Schlesinger prudently refuses to discuss specifics, though he does say that "there is going to be nothing novel in this comprehensive energy plan." Except, of course, that the nation finally will have, for better or worse, a comprehensive plan, focused on what Washington is calling "the two Cs"-conservation and coal...