Word: nationalizes
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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Overtaxed, overregulated, and fed up with the legislative extravagances of the most liberal state in the nation, Massachusetts voters refused to swallow one more social experiment...
...White House, Ford stood unsmiling and he did not indulge in his customary banter with the press. But Carter eased the tension by kissing Betty Ford warmly on the cheek. Seated on apricot damask wing chairs in front of the fireplace for an hour, the two men discussed the nation's problems, including the possibility of Carter's meeting with world leaders shortly after his Inauguration. Carter felt that a summit meeting on economic affairs would be useful...
...best way to distribute the wealth," López Portillo told campaign supporters, "is to create more sources of work." Doing that will be difficult. The investment-public and private -needed just to employ new job-seekers is estimated at $10 billion a year, a crushing burden for a nation whose total G.N.P. is only $80 billion...
What obsesses Atlantic City, the rest of Jersey, and indeed much of the rest of the nation, is that gambling?an activity that churns out money, creates jobs, resists recessions and does not pollute the air or streams?is going legit...
Sanctioning of the sometime sin has been sweeping the nation over the past decade. In the early 1960s, outside of Nevada, state-countenanced gambling was almost entirely confined to track betting. Today, 44 states have some form of legalized gambling and the kinds are growing. Legislation to permit new and expanded types of wagering?from jai alai to bingo, dog racing and card rooms ?is pending in 37 states. A few states have even invaded the fertile field of numbers betting, long the exclusive and profitable province of organized crime. Two states, Delaware and Montana, have joined Nevada...