Word: butter
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...home there. Thus Nixon's mandate is indeed major, but, like all democratic mandates, conditional. He has temporarily taken the center away from the Democrats, and it remains to be seen how long he can hold it: after the Viet Nam War, the test should be those bread-and-butter, pragmatic issues that the post-McGovern Democrats will undoubtedly try to reassert. In a curious way the President may find that the very fact of his landslide may make Americans doubly watchful and critical of his performance in the next four years?something that should be reinforced by the Democratic...
...party of the Nixon-Connolly rich. Class-conscious visuals would show McGovern visiting a neighborhood that had been block-busted, talking about how both blacks and whites get screwed by the big men on top. Or they would put him first in St. Louis talking about bread and butter issues with white workers then in East St. Louis talking the same line with blacks...
Neither side is certain which way the votes will fall in a battle of the old and the new politics-the faintly mod liberal Republican against the gladhanding, bread-and-butter Democrat. Washington is normally Democratic, which gives Rosellini an advantage in his effort to justify his Seattle telephone-directory business listing: "Albert D. Rosellini, Gov atty...
Downes has been emphasizing what he calls "bread-and-butter" issues. He wants to see a system of portable pensions instituted in the state, which would guarantee that a person could hold several jobs in his lifetime but not end up with just "a watch and a hand-shake...
...Allende or the Chilean economy. Inflation for the first nine months of this year is a staggering 99.8% . The price of sirloin steak, on the rare occasions it has been available, has increased 200% ; stew beef is up 116%, powdered milk 166%. Wheat and bread are in short supply. Butter has disappeared. But real hunger threatened only momentarily when food stores closed in a strike two weeks ago, until the army ordered them to reopen...