Word: wayes
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...supplied equipment in violation of a previous agreement with the U.S. But the State Department was not particularly anxious to pursue that point just now. A spokesman emphasized that the Administration was not contemplating a reduction in the $2.7 billion in military aid already committed to Israel as a way to browbeat Jerusalem into ceasing its artillery attacks in Lebanon. Said one State Department official: "We don't want to be the ones to carry an arms reduction proposal up to Capitol Hill...
Shernoff, 41, describes himself as "a one-man prosecutor going around the country imposing fines and penalties on insurance companies for illegal conduct." He argues that punitive damages offer the only effective way to protect consumers from wrongdoing by insurers, since claims practices are not closely regulated. In all of 1978, Shernoff points out, the California Department of Insurance collected $7 million for 13,000 claimants; but in just two months last spring, Shernoff won awards and settlements totaling $3 million for 26 claimants...
...Depression that history texts began to grapple with the nation's changing social and cultural issues. The most notable grappler was Harold Rugg. In An Introduction to the Problems of American Culture and other books, he boldly discussed class structure, unemployment, even talked of socialism as a possible way of redistributing wealth. His texts were popular with liberals and sold widely. In the mid-1930s nearly half the schoolchildren of America read Rugg. But as war threatened, Rugg was thought to be unAmerican. In 1939 such diverse organizations as the American Legion and the Advertising Federation of America attacked...
...real estate office uses a black box to inspire sales personnel ("I love real estate. I will prospect for new listings for clients each and every day"). Says black box Inventor Hal C. Becker: "I see no reason why there won't be audio-conditioning the same way we now have air conditioning...
...which is larger than Connecticut. The pulp factory and its ancillaries cost $400 million to construct. A companion plant is expected to be towed up the river and put in operation by the mid-1980s. To feed the plants with young trees, a vast reforestation is under way that will clear the land of old growth and establish huge new timber farms. The principal planting is the Gmelina arborea (pronounced malina ar-bor-ea), a hardwood native to Burma and India that grows to 15 in. in diameter in five years and 30 in twelve, or roughly twice as fast...