Word: rubberized
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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Under California law, such appointments are confirmed on a straight yes or no ballot at the next statewide election. Although the confirmation vote is usually a rubber stamp, in Bird's case it became the occasion for pointed political protest. Contending that she was "soft" on crime, conservatives launched a $300,000 effort to oust her from the court. Bird survived the election with 52% of the vote, even though details of the court's potentially unpopular decision on an armed robbery case were leaked to the Los Angeles Times and appeared on the day of the election...
Nothing inspires the U.S. to deeds of technological derring-do like a national emergency. Government and industry join to beat their traditional swords into plowshares-or into synthetic rubber, aluminum, manned rockets and various products needed for survival. Many times the Government has met tremendous challenges by setting clear goals, guaranteeing markets and assigning specific projects to private companies...
...closest parallel was another raw-materials crisis almost 40 years ago, when the Japanese invasion of Southeast Asia cut off 90% of the world's natural-rubber supply. The U.S., caught with its stockpiles down and accustomed to importing over half a million tons annually from Asia, was forced to create a synthetic-rubber industry almost from scratch...
...coal, which would help break OPEC's lock. More and more, energy experts are coming to the view that Government will have to provide grants and guarantees to help get alternative energy industries going, much as the Government's Reconstruction Finance Corp. helped establish the synthetic rubber industry during World War II. The Administration is beginning to show some interest in such ideas, but it wants the money to come from President Carter's proposed windfall profits tax, and Congress could wind up deciding not to enact the levy at all. The truth is, when it comes...
...main hope of Washington's inflation fighters is that the United Rubber Workers, who are striking Uniroyal for an industry-wide settlement, eventually will accept a pay increase reasonably close to 7% annually. The U.R.W., which resumed negotiations last week, is seeking a three-year settlement of between 33% and 36%. No end of the strike is in sight...