Word: pittsburgh
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...technical and complex that the traditional way of running things is inadequate. Perhaps for the first time, even Americans, the world's foremost solvers of technical problems, have been afflicted by this feeling. "Governments are trying to do a 20th century job with 19th century methodology," says University of Pittsburgh Historian Joseph Malone...
...more than 57 varieties of food found in his family's business. Now completing his first full term in Congress, Republican Heinz represents a Pennsylvania district that embraces both aristocratic exurbs and grimy mill towns. He specializes in health and environmental affairs, has toiled to keep his Pittsburgh-area fences in good repair, and is a shoo-in for reelection. A graduate of Yale and the Harvard Business School, Heinz is a moderate who has fought with the Administration to end U.S. involvement in Viet Nam and to secure funds for the national Community Mental Health Centers Program...
...Commission on Campus Unrest in 1970, but soon joined the White House enemies list for wondering aloud whether Nixon's reference to "campus bums" had encouraged the killings at Kent State. Democrat Rhodes soon afterward quit his studies and in 1972 won election to the state legislature from Pittsburgh. He is virtually assured of re-election this year...
Marina V. N. Whitman '56, a member of the Board of Overseers, said her role as an advisor to the Federal Economic Council and Price Commission put her on the list. She is now a professor of economics at the University of Pittsburgh...
...need $60,000 for the building, installations and the rest," she says. "That translates to about 30% down in today's market and, with an 11%-plus interest rate, it's just an impossible dream." Bernard Zvirman, co-owner of a restaurant-hardware business in Pittsburgh, says, "It is just about impossible for a chef to leave his place of employment and open his own restaurant." With high interest rates piled on top of other costs, he estimates that it now requires $3,000 a seat to open even a modest dining room, double the cost ten years...