Word: certainly
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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Offered such a host of plans and proposals, a certain number of voters will respond by not responding. "People are going to vote with their feet by not going to the polls," asserts Caddell, who anticipates an alltime low turnout. Others will focus all their attention on a single issue. Former President Gerald Ford, for one, worries that single-issue interest groups ? for and against abortion or gun-control or environmental regulations, etc.? will increasingly determine election outcomes. He told TIME Chicago Bureau Chief Benjamin Gate that such groups pose "dangerous ramifications for the two-party system." Business...
...dues, first-class travel and the much maligned three-martini lunch. Tuned finely to the antitax and more conservative mood of the electorate, Congress was mainly interested in axing federal levies and encouraging investment. Although the congressional bill falls short of the Administration's original goals, it seemed certain that Carter would sign...
...vise," he recalls. When he pulled his hand back, he brought with it a 4½-ft. diamondback rattlesnake, its fangs buried near his left thumb. He managed to shake off the snake and ran screaming to a neighbor, who applied a tourniquet that saved Morantz from almost certain death. Fire department paramedics chopped off the snake's head with a shovel, and discovered that the rattles had been removed so that the snake could attack without warning...
...armed Palestinians would not only create a P.L.O.-run state within a state inside Lebanon but also turn the country into another confrontation power. In 1975, as clashes between Christians and Palestinians escalated into full-scale civil war, the Maronite militia turned to Israel for arms and training. A certain elitism - and a mutual hatred of Syrians - has nurtured the longstanding bond between the Israelis and the Europe-oriented Maronites, who regard themselves as a bastion of Western civilization in the Arab world. As a Christian militia officer explained last week, "We feel, like the Israelis, that...
...latter-day Polo, the F.F., comes with camera, tape recorder and ballpoint pen. Thus he returns with certain authenticated truths. He comes also with the knowledge that he is visiting the world's most populous nation, perhaps a billion people inhabiting a land mass only slightly larger than the U.S. It is of course a Communist nation long opposed to America. It is an authoritarian society in which the late Chairman Mao Tse-tung's sayings, statue or visage (often today paired with that of Chairman Hua Kuo-feng) dominates every public place-though Mao buttons...