Word: nationalizes
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...some very big exceptions. In Colombia, surging coffee revenues have been accompanied by a riptide of 26% inflation. There, the oligarchic semiofficial Fedecafe sets coffee policies and controls 42% of the trade, while 28 private exporting companies dominate the rest of the market in high-quality beans. The nation's 130,000 backlot growers cannot afford soaring prices for fertilizers, fungicides and equipment. Except in Central America and Mexico, where the coffee pickers are in short supply, the lot of the hired worker has not improved. In Brazil, laborers known as bóias frias (literal translation: cold grub...
...ruling, the first of its kind, is not binding on other courts, but Justice Leahy issued a "dire" warning to prosecutors across the nation to protect religious freedom. At the courtroom, robed and garlanded Defendant Murphy exulted, "Where there is Krishna there is victory." The victory was not total, however. Legal expenses have crippled Hare Krishna activities in New York, the abductors of Merylee Kreshower have escaped prosecution, and Justice Leahy's words are unlikely to deter deprogrammers elsewhere...
...nation was having collective nightmares in the late '60s, and Didion connected by writing honestly and well about Viet Nam, runaway children and marital stress. In 1970 she and her husband, Writer John Gregory Dunne, paid $140,000 for a house at Malibu, Calif, where the sun always shines and the cost of real estate is limited only by what the next multimillionaire rock star is willing to pay. There Didion can have her bad dreams in style and gather strength for the promotional tour that is likely to make A Book of Common Prayer a bestseller this spring...
Irwin Blye will never be mistaken for Philip Marlowe: he is handmaiden to the nation's lawyers, a shrewd middleman in America's judicial process. His assignments, almost always from attorneys, involve collecting evidence that is presentable and persuasive in court. The highest praise for the shamus comes from a lawyer feared in settlement circles as a "matrimonial bomber": "Irwin Blye puts things together. He knows the law." He also knows civil liberties and how to abuse them. To him information is power. His weapons are things like UCC-11 forms (for $3 you get everything on anyone...
...statement that the University has "entered a period of precarious stability" after 25 years of growth and change, then student unrest, and at last financial stringency. If this stability--based as it seems to be on a general consensus that what's good for Harvard is good for the nation--is precarious, then it's hard to help asking what kind of stability is unshakeable...