Word: center
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...SOCIALIST PARTY, led by former Foreign Minister Soares, 51, will be trying to best its impressive 38% showing in last April's election for a Constituent Assembly. Two early polls show the Socialists getting about 40%. In the past year Soares has edged the party closer to the center. Its platform advocates increased private investment, price controls, guarantees of property rights of small farmers and a new agrarian-reform program. It opposes further nationalizations...
...CENTER SOCIAL DEMOCRATIC PARTY, unabashedly on the right, is expected to improve considerably on its 8% tally last year, if only because it will be fielding more candidates; in the 1975 balloting, ultraleftists intimidated many C.D.S. candidates into withdrawing from the campaign. The party calls for a halt to nationalization, cutbacks in imports, and new agrarian reforms...
...same season. If appropriate inoculations could always be prepared in advance, doctors would have been able to prevent the outbreak of A/Victoria flu this winter among Fort Dix recruits-who were vaccinated against three other viral strains. Admits Virologist Gary Noble of the U.S. Public Health Service's Center for Disease Control: "Ford made the vaccine sound a little rosier than...
City officials, who keep a close watch on the Souris, have followed a carefully rehearsed plan in preparing for the floods. A well-staffed flood control center, resembling a military command post, was set up to begin coordinating an evacuation system and dike patrol. National Guardsmen and personnel from the local Air Force base were pressed into service to help. A Shrine Circus, scheduled to play the municipal auditorium last week, was canceled and the hall used for storage...
...efforts of Griffin, Kelley and Bohn have not been totally forsaken in this period of new spiritualism. The board of the Harvard-Radcliffe Student Center, still angry over Madeiros' actions, felt it was necessary to appoint a minister who would supplement the Cardinal's appointments and thus avoid a complete change in the nature of the ministry. To this end Mary Roodkowsky, a degree candidate at the Divinity School, was named last spring as a lay chaplain...