Word: clearest
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...book's user can find his way around with the help of the clearest, most informative urban maps this side of France's Michelin guides. He will discover the delicate wrought-iron tracery of Fairmount Park's old bridges, the city's best ice cream stand (Bassett's in Reading Terminal Market), and even a giant automobile crusher on Penrose Avenue. To make sense of the city streets, the book traces Philadelphia's growth from the neat rectangular grid of streets studded with parks laid out by Penn himself in 1622, through later annexations...
...government, the older and classically Democratic concern for the little man against special interests and corporations. In those enthusiasms he has had a wider following, and probably a firmer hold on the future, than his polls would indicate. It was Nixon who first declared that the election offered the clearest choice of the century?and McGovern quickly and happily agreed. Both candidates may have been right. What seems to have intervened is McGovern's personal failure...
...emerged in the public view as an ineffectual leader and manager. Indeed, his seeming ineptness may well have become the issue obscuring all others, thus diluting the purity of the "clearest choice in a century" between two programs and philosophies. If McGovern is turning off the voters to the extent that the latest polls suggest, it is nearly impossible to determine to what degree they are resisting his program?or their perception of it?and to what extent they merely distrust his effectiveness as a leader...
...greatest week in the history of the world," a claim that slighted certain events like the birth of Christ. At a press conference last week in the Oval Office, the President declared that the differences between himself and George McGovern this year presented American voters with "the clearest choice in this century...
...social problems and creating jobs, while the Republicans are concerned about holding down the budget to fight the inflation that has so badly damaged the nation, beginning in the Johnson Administration. That is yet another reason why President Nixon believes that the voters in November will have "the clearest choice in this century...