Word: wave
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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Michigan's Republican Congressman Guy Vander Jagt elevates the tax issue to geophysical dimensions. "It is a tidal wave," he says, after a week of listening to complaints on a trip from Florida to California. Oklahoma's Democratic Representative James R. Jones finds signals of desperation among small businessmen and wage earners. The burdens of state and local taxes are at the breaking point, they say. Then from Washington comes the message of immense increases in the Social Security bite and the series of proposed energy taxes that would reach right back into the pocketbooks of middle-class...
What's a spy to do when he gets fired? Some 200 CIA secret agents who have received pink slips in the first wave of a planned two-year cutback in covert personnel have been hitting the streets in search of jobs. But who really needs experts on secret information gathering, conspiracy and political subversion? "Hell, we are simply unemployable," complains one such agent. "No one will have...
...alarming wave of prostitution by teen-agers and young children has struck the U.S., not only in the big cities but also in the small towns of the Dakotas, the Minnesota iron range, Kentucky, New England and elsewhere. Some of the young prostitutes live at home and turn tricks merely for pocket money. But most are runaways. Typically, they are the products of broken homes and brutality, often inflicted by alcoholic or drug-addicted parents. They take to the streets, use their bodies for survival and then, beaten by pimps and bereft of selfesteem, live in fear of reprisal...
...away like fishermen's bobbers. In the basement of Forrest Hall, a 140-bed dormitory, 22-year-old Senior Bobby Carter had finished his nightly devotion, reading from II Corinthians, and was just falling asleep when his windowsill fan hurtled across the room on the crest of a wave. Carter swam for the stair well and made it to safety. Three friends drowned in adjoining rooms. In all, 38 members of the college community, including 18 children, perished...
...revolution. They are anxious about wages, about their children's schooling, about losing their jobs and thus their legal right to remain in the urban townships. Their leaders, for the most part today, are in prison, in detention or in hiding. They have few spokesmen. Despite the current wave of arrests and bannings, tangible evidence of the power of the state, riots and strikes will probably go on. South Africa's best-known writer, Alan Paton (Cry, the Beloved Country), has described the black-white confrontation as "a nightmare of noncompromising power creating a noncompromising opposition." In Soweto, a former...