Word: warne
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...first two years, the Nixon Administration often approached the problem of lawlessness in American life with a constabulary zeal that moved many critics to warn that the country faced an era of repression. "I am first and foremost a law-enforcement officer," said Attorney General John Mitchell in 1969. "Law-and-order" often did seem to take precedence over social reform. The Administration pushed such police tactics as stop-and-frisk, no-knock and preventive detention, and stressed the need to liberate the nation's cops from the shackles of liberal Supreme Court decisions that protected the rights...
...main reason is that San Franciscans are tired of being visually bullied. An anti-tower coalition of citizens and conservationists argued that the 550-ft.-high structure would obliterate vistas and harm the city's still intimate scale. Dress Manufacturer Alvin Duskin took an ad to warn that San Francisco would soon be "like New York and Chicago, where life has all the joys of the bottom of an elevator shaft-a crowded elevator shaft where everybody has guns...
Last week the Burger court sharpened that trend with a 5-to-4 decision limiting Miranda v. Arizona, the famous 1966 ruling that requires police to warn all suspects in custody of their rights to silence and counsel. Speaking for the majority, Chief Justice Burger offered prosecutors a possible way out when police fail to give the Miranda warnings. Until last week, such a failure was thought to make a suspect's in-custody statements wholly inadmissible at his trial...
Lately the housewife's attention has been sought by new suitors: consumerists, ecologists and politicians, who warn that enzymes could be a health hazard and detergent phosphates a major despoiler of the environment. Embattled soapmakers deny the first charge and dispute the second, but their romance with homemakers is strained. Sales of enzyme pre-soaks have slid from a high of $75 million in 1969 to about $25 million now. For the first time in years, detergent sales in 1970 did not grow, running at an estimated $1.2 billion, about the same...
...question remained, however, whether Gierek's somersault on prices would embolden other workers to make fresh demands next week or the week after. The Polish press launched a campaign obviously inspired by the regime to warn Poles that the latest concessions "reached the absolute last boundary...