Word: nationalizes
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...able to give the opposition a tough time. Led by former Olympic hopeful Terry Neff, senior Tom Reps, and junior co-captains Russell Long and Jim Hammitt, the sailors breezed home ahead of top-ranked Yale and traditional powerhouse Tufts in last weekend's meet, trailing only URI. The national sailing journals rate the Crimson between sixth and eighth in the nation, and Horn is confident his crew will wind up the season even better than that...
...Textile Workers Union organized a nationwide boycott of products manufactured by the J.P. Stevens Company. The North Carolina-based textile firm, which for years has been fighting unionization efforts, is infamous for its poor treatment of its workers. Although it is the second largest textile manufacturer in the nation, J.P. Stevens currently pays its employees $54--31 per cent--less than the national average weekly wage for unionized textile workers. Thousands of J.P. Stevens workers have been disabled by byssinosis (brown lung), a disease caused by exposure to cotton dust levels three times as high as those permitted under national...
...MEDICAL care system is not well. Politicians, academics and physicians agree on that. Even controversy-shy President Bok can feel safe writing in his latest annual report that society is deeply troubled over issues like the system's cost and the dubious benefits to health of the nation's massive outlays for care. Close to ten per cent of the gross national product is now spent on medical care. Bok suggests that Harvard--specifically the Medical School--should try to improve the effectiveness and efficiency of medical care. He also says the school should seek better ways of training physicians...
...executive order that established the commission in February says the commission should try to identify the nation's mental health needs...
...Grove rebounded from the loss to be named third best team in the nation in one poll and Mark Kirkland went East to the scenic shores of the River Charles...