Word: clearings
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...cobwebs of grave sin and mental disorder are beginning to clear. Gays and straights now finally realize that closets are for clothes...
Last week's cautious progress on several fronts made it clear that the entire state of U.S.-Soviet relations is at a point of great potentiality for lasting change...
...years we need the opportunity to throw the bums out, and all through the four years we need the right to keep the fellows scared to death that they might be thrown out. Doesn't Carter yet realize that campaigning forces him (and others) to think, take positions, clear fuzzy parts of the brain? The game measures the men. It is tiring and wasteful, but that is always the price for democracy, where competition substitutes for autocracy...
Throughout the four-week campaign, which was brought about when Callaghan's government narrowly lost a vote of confidence in March, both major parties emphasized that Britain faced a clear choice. Callaghan offered a continuation of the moderate social democratic policies that have dominated British political and economic life since the end of World War II. Thatcher presented a clear break with the socialist past, advocating a return to the market economy and a retrenching of Britain's welfare state. As some commentators saw it, Labor, in a reversal of traditional roles, had become the party of established orthodoxy, while...
Thatcher immediately made it clear that there would be nothing demure or retiring about her leadership. In her words: "I am not a consensus politician. I am a conviction politician." Before Thatcher's victory last week, onetime rival Whitelaw declared: "She is a brilliant leader of the opposition, the best in a long, long time." Privately, however, some of her colleagues are more critical. Says one senior Tory: "She can be very petulant when up against criticism. When she gets into an argument she talks all the time. Talk. Talk. Talk. Because of this she is not a very good...