Word: bumpers
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...Washington, New York Mayor Abraham Beame cited the ways in which the city had cut back: a reduction of almost 36,000 public jobs, a freeze on wage increases and new construction, a boost in the transit fare to the highest in the nation (50?). Ford's "bumper-sticker philosophy," said Beame, had "triggered hatred, disunity and confusion." New York Governor Hugh Carey lobbied his former colleagues in Congress, then at the end of the week he headed for the West Coast to try to convince people that their fate was entwined with New York City's. Joining...
George W. Spartichino is one of those ethnic candidates that every Cambridge City Council election seems to attract. Even though he is running on a shoe-string budget--his bumper stickers are the left-overs of former Massachusetts Attorney General Robert Quinn's governors campaign that have been stripped clean and reprinted--Spartichino insists that the north Cambridge voters that kept him in the State Legislature from 1956 to 1966 can send him to the council...
...great interest to the majority of India's 600 million people, who are more concerned about the fact that the government has completely halted inflation (down from 31% in September 1974) and that India's three-year-old drought has ended (experts now project a bumper grain crop this fall). Indians will long debate whether Mrs. Gandhi was justified in proclaiming the emergency, but the Prime Minister has won widespread support for seizing a rare opportunity to ram through a score of social reforms...
What happens next? One view is that having proved her leadership with the emergency and having reaped the political benefits of a bumper grain harvest, Mrs. Gandhi will be in a strong position next spring to end the emergency and hold elections. Another view holds that since she already has a two-thirds majority in Parliament, there would be no need for her to risk a campaign and all its attendant criticism from opposition leaders and an unshackled press. There are signs of a drift toward a cult of personality. The back of one bus bears the florid declaration COURAGE...
...come. The decline of the popular belief in hell, among other things, has done much to weaken this belief today. The founders and shapers developed a process for nurturing moral concern. Perhaps because they had to, they listened to each other. They reasoned and debated. Today banners, bumper stickers and megaphones often supplant argument. "Abortion is murder." "A woman's body is hers to do with what she wants." These are slogans and conclusions, not hypotheses, shouted by sometimes sincere people who live by their own sets of absolutes but who cannot listen to others...