Word: nationalizes
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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Right after the London meeting, Agriculture Secretary Bob Bergland unwrapped a package of measures intended to bring cheer-and perhaps as much as $1.8 billion in increased income during election year 1980-to the nation's farm lands. Over the next 14 months, the U.S. will sell the Soviets 10 million metric tons of wheat and another 10 million metric tons of corn; the wheat alone is enough to provide every Soviet man, woman and child with almost 100 1-lb. loaves...
Even such a fractional rise will irritate inflation-squeezed Americans. Nonetheless, higher exports of U.S. farm products are the best hope for reducing the nation's trade deficit, which is caused largely by oil imports. Since America's appetite for foreign oil will remain intense, it is necessary to sell more food abroad even if that means slightly higher supermarket bills at home...
Unfortunately for the beleaguered utility, its film may now need some editing. For the past four months, the Nuclear Regulatory Commission (NRC), among others, has been looking into the causes and effects of the nation's worst commercial reactor accident. Last week, in a report that is sure to have wide repercussions, NRC staff investigators said that the most serious aspects of the mishap were almost certainly due to human error. And though they acknowledged that the radiation level was low, they said that one burst was greater than any previously revealed...
...beach. There it is deposited in large, neat mounds, until the fresh sand is spread out by large earth-moving machines. Under way for two years, the controversial $64 million project by the Army Corps of Engineers is aimed at nothing less than saving one of the nation's vacation landmarks: that fabled stretch of the Florida Gold Coast known as Miami Beach...
DIED. Herbert Marcuse, 81, Marxist philosopher and guru of '60s youth; of a stroke; while visiting in Starnberg, West Germany (see NATION...