Word: nationalizes
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...Come on, Lucky Pierre," shouted the chap in the stands at a Miami jai alai fronton. "I can't miss with you." It was Jerry Wurf, Washington-based boss of the State, County and Municipal Workers, the nation's largest public employees union (750,000 members), cheering on a lanky player on the court. But when unlucky Pierre swung his curved basket at the speeding white jai alai ball and missed, Wurf, who had not won a bet all night, resignedly tore up his losing $2 ticket. "If we don't win the next one," he told...
...thus left out. Worse still, under the Ullman plan, no company may claim deductions exceeding $40,000 or enter claims for more than 24 people (unless the new employees are handicapped or disabled). This $40,000 cap means that only small firms can take advantage of the plan; the nation's major industrial corporations, which are the most important generators of jobs, are effectively excluded. Reason: the committee developed what some of its members dubbed "the General Motors complex." Explained Cotter: "It was felt that General Motors did not need help." Not wanting to be accused of aiding...
...helped carry Jimmy Carter into the White House. Last week Strauss received his reward. Impressed by his effectiveness and flair, Carter wrestled down his earlier resentment over Strauss's preference for other candidates and recruited him for a job in which his personal drive may serve the entire nation. At 7:45 one morning, the President summoned Strauss to the Oval Office and offered him the post of Special Representative for Trade Negotiations. Strauss mulled it over for about 30 hours and then he said...
...After the turn of the century, with a few exceptions, James Ensor painted nothing of consequence for 50 years. His self-pity was increasingly soothed, and that is perhaps why his art did not develop - and why he so eagerly grabbed the honors pressed on him by the grateful nation he had once excoriated. Robert Hughes
...idea of a Cabinet-level energy department is hardly revolutionary; indeed, the DOE that Carter is proposing resembles one drawn up by the Ford Administration in its waning days. But it is a plain and practical proposal, attuned to the nation's current political and economic realities...