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Newspaper
Cedar Rapids Gazette
Location
Cedar Rapids, Iowa, United States of America
Date
Jan 01, 1980
Page
5
Iowa voices discuss the coming decade outlining aging roads and funding gaps, rising car ownership, energy questions, and rapid tech growth. They forecast education shifts, ethics debates on genetics, and family life changes with mixed hopes and cautious optimism for 1980s society.
This summary lists key 1970s shifts inflation energy Vietnam War Watergate Bicentennial food security and individual rights. It notes the 1973 oil embargo as a trial, veterans and families impacted, Watergate's effect on trust, rising court activity, Attica, federalism, and localizing national programs with revenue sharing.
The text outlines New Zealand as two main islands with 103,736 square miles, roughly Colorado’s size. It notes Abel Tasman as the first European visitor in 1642, James Cook’s coastal exploration in 1769 70, and British sovereignty being proclaimed in 1840 with settlement starting that year.
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