Word: nationalizes
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...addition to all the battles for office high and low across the nation, there were some fierce campaigns on a farrago of issues. Casinos, handguns, disposable bottles and cans, nuclear safeguards, the size of local governments were among the hundreds of objects of referenda, initiatives and propositions on city and state ballots. Voters in Maryland confronted 21 issues on which their judgment was sought, those in Massachusetts nine, in Georgia 28, for example. Verdicts on some of the most interesting and important...
...generation of church leaders, however, inspired by the teachings of the Second Vatican Council and Popes John XXIII and Paul VI, is more active in struggling against injustice and oppression. The new generation also has a compelling cause for its fast-developing political involvement: military takeovers in nation after nation have been almost invariably accompanied by severe political repression and torture...
...began in 1964 with the abrupt end of democracy in Brazil, the continent's largest nation. Around 1968 the Brazilian military regime grew nasty: priests were jailed and dissidents were tortured to death. Says one bishop: "The effect on the church leadership was swift and strong. It would have been impossible for us to concentrate only on pastoral work when we knew human beings were being tortured and mutilated." President Ernesto Geisel, who is a Lutheran, claims that he has ordered an end to political torture, but local police and military officials persist in the practice, as do right...
...using the renewed strength to do what many of them have not done in years: buy new planes. American. Braniff and Northwest have placed orders with Boeing for 23 727-200s (value: $251 million). Eastern has ordered nine DC-9s from McDonnell Douglas. In September, United Airlines, the nation's largest air carrier, handed Boeing its biggest order from any major U.S. airline in eight years: 28 727-200s worth $350 million, including spare parts...
...eleven indicators available for the September index, the most disquieting was the layoff rate. Layoffs in the nation's factories increased from 1.3 for each 100 workers in August to 1.5 in September. The new figures tend to confute those (mainly Republican) economists who have argued up to now that the nation's high 7.8% jobless rate was almost exclusively a result of growth in the number of people looking for employment, rather than a consequence of employed workers losing their jobs. Among other leading indicators, new orders dipped and manufacturers cut the average work week...