Word: cents
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...packaged like cornflakes." She also knows that in a one-on-one, Presidential-style contest with Callaghan, she might have lost hands down: the same polls which showed large Tory leads also put Callaghan way ahead in personal popularity. The striking fact, however, is that with a 75 per cent voter turnout, and a national voting swing of 5 per cent--the highest in decades--the electorate went decisively for Tory policies, scorning the middle-ground consensus on which both major parties had traditionally operated, and which had been considered indispensable both in winning elections and governing Britain...
Rubella is a mild virus, but can be very dangerous if contracted by women during the first three months of pregnancy. Children of infected mothers have close to a 50-per-cent chance of developing birth defects such as deafness, heart malformations, or mental retardation...
...these points were seriously addressed, today's defense budget could be reduced far beyond its projected 4-5 per cent real rise this year...
...view of what U.S. foreign policy goals should be--defense of our traditional allies and of the United States itself, and the maintenance of a nuclear second-strike capability. In calm and modest style, they then describe in detail how U.S. defense spending could be reduced by 40 per cent. They propose cutbacks in the forces "which are primarily useful not against the U.S.S.R. but against the lesser military powers in the poorer half of the world, like Vietnam," and in "the vast excess in the quantity of nuclear weapons" that the U.S. now has and continues to build. They...
...small things this season," the veteran pitcher said, leaning back in his chair and talking softly. "We've been playing apart, and the result is we have played inconsistently. The second thing was the coaching change--coach Nahigian is a great guy who gives 100 per cent for the kids and the job, but obviously in the beginning you have to adjust to a new coach's style...