Word: reductionisms
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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The new bipartisanship was reflected in House votes for heavy defense spending. The House authorized $26.5 billion for research, development and purchase of new military weapons in fiscal 1976, up 27% from the spending for the current fiscal year and only modestly lower than Ford's original request. Congressmen...
With the Communist victory all but official, the U.S. began accelerating the reduction of Americans in Laos. At the start of the week, about 850 U.S. officials and dependents and 150 businessmen, journalists, missionaries and other private citizens were based there. Some of them came under attack last week. In...
The more optimistic members are betting that a big sell-off of swollen business inventories will soon leave corporations able to reorder goods and cause production to turn up. The Government figures that business inventories in March declined $1.92 billion, the largest drop on record (see chart). Board members are...
The company has had no leader since the February suicide of Chairman Eli M. Black, who had created United Brands in 1970 by merging his own AMK Corp. with United Fruit Co. A Securities and Exchange Commission investigation into Black's death uncovered a $1.25 million bribe United Brands...
The twin demons of inflation and recession have already caused severe cutbacks in many college sports programs. For instance, the western Big Sky Conference voted in 1973 to end league competition in baseball, swimming, tennis, golf, and skiing because of the high travel costs involved. The University of Vermont decided...