Word: unrest
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...year ago it was also a time for journalists and critics to look forward to what 1970 would bring, but their record turned out to be nearly as spotty as the astrologers. Many expected a hot summer of black unrest in the ghettos that never materialized. Economists looked for a solid upturn from recession by the end of 1970, but there has been none. Few observers of the U.S. scene foresaw that political passions on the campuses would become muted in a new emphasis on "privatism." One who was right on, however, was Arthur Koestler, who said late...
...excessive factory control, reductions in their price markups, and the "dumping" of unwanted cars on their sales lots. Discontented customers demanded more reliability and easier repair-at a time when management found it increasingly hard to maintain quality output in their plants, in great part because of worker unrest. The eight-week strike against General Motors made a weak year even worse. In 1970 the U.S. is expected to produce 6,550,000 cars, down from 8,219,000 last year...
...really care about our country's health. Their cries for reform are lost in the fights for higher wages and prices spurred on by the apathetic majority and those who now wallow in the muck of affluence. Rather than live in this society of increasing crime, pollution, racial unrest and inflation, they leave the country...
William W. Scranton, chairman of the President's Commission on Campus Unrest, said yesterday that President Nixon's letter commenting upon the commission's report substantially supports the group's findings...
...would not tolerate a repetition of the Mexico City student uprisings that preceded the 1968 Olympic Games. Echeverria was Minister of the Interior under outgoing President Gustavo Diaz Ordaz when those riots erupted: at least 33 people were shot to death and 500 wounded by police and soldiers. Campus unrest could well plague Echeverria throughout his six-year term, particularly with 150 people still in prison as a result of the 1968 riots...