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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...were killed when troops fired on demonstrators. But most of the country's striking workers went back to their jobs, including employees of Iran Air, as well as transportation, communications, customs and steel personnel. So did most of Iran's striking oilworkers, who were given an ultimatum: Return to work or lose your jobs. Although slowdowns in some refineries and rigs continued, oil production at week's end had rebounded to 3.2 million bbl. per day, more than half the prestrike output. Officials of the National Iranian Oil Co. hoped to have production back to normal within...
...return-to-work movement was far from enthusiastic, and the country's 10 million students and 400,000 teachers, as well as newspaper reporters in Tehran, were still out on strike in support of their demands for political reforms and an end to martial law and press censorship. Tehran's normally thriving bazaar was still locked up tight. The merchants had shuttered their shops three months ago out of respect for Ayatullah Khomeini, the exiled leader of Iran's 34 million Shi'ite Muslims and the spearhead of anti-Shah dissent. At his headquarters outside Paris...
...formality is evident. It can be read literally in the sales and rentals of tuxedos, which are considerably higher than they were several years ago. Says the manager of Los Angeles Tuxedo Center: "There is definitely a return to the '30s look ?chic, elegant tuxedos." In Chicago, I. Magnin's bridal-wear sales are up 70% over last year. After the era of write-it-yourself Kahlil Gibran barefoot weddings, the large traditional marriage ritual and reception are returning...
Some regulations will always be necessary, and not only to avoid abuses of workers or a return to the pre-Nader days of unsafe cars. If there were no mandatory standards set by Government, companies willing to spend hard cash on antipollution and safety gear would lose orders to competitors that refused to make those social investments; the callous companies would have lower costs. The nation desperately needs to find a sensible midpoint between too much regulation and too little...
...overall there have been no fundamental alterations. The return to power of the Conservatives in 1951 did not result in the dismantling of the NHS, just as later Republican administrations did not undo the reforms of the New Deal...