Word: deeps
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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Even so, Carter was encouraged by the cheering crowds lined six and seven deep along the road; some people waved signs proclaiming JIMMY, NOT TEDDY. In the Steubenville high school auditorium. Carter shed his coat, mopped his perspiring face and promised that coal production would be tripled by 1995. The windfall-profits tax, he pledged, would amount to $88 billion in revenues, and $75 billion would be spent on coal...
...release. Said one activist: "For Puerto Ricans, the nationalist ex-prisoners represent, even for those of us who are not Independistas, people who lived by principle, people who placed the cause of freedom for Puerto Rico above themselves." Said Commonwealth Founder Luis Muñoz Marin: "I share the deep satisfaction for this clemency that all Puerto Ricans must feel...
...that are now nominally independent, seven are in transitional stages on the road to autonomy. But that road is fraught with difficulties. Only three of the homelands, Ciskei, Qwaqwa and KaNgwane, are unitary territories; the rest are fragmented enclaves, surrounded by land reserved for whites. Only Transkei possesses a deep-water seaport. Apart from BophuthaTswana and Lebowa, which have rich mineral deposits, the rural homelands lack exploitable resources. Their inhabitants are engaged mainly in subsistence-level farming, while about half of the men are forced to migrate to South Africa in search of employment...
...Cabinet meeting that led to the bitter exchange between Yadin and Sharon, the Premier admitted that he had not read the minutes of the committee report on the settlements, despite the fact that they had been sent to his home. Even one of Begin's protective aides admits deep concern: "It seems that his physical condition is deteriorating quickly. I do not know when, but he will have to quit the premiership. It might happen tomorrow, next week-or next year...
...TIME'S circulation had climbed to 250,000, and Larsen and Luce were deep in preparation for another magazine, FORTUNE. They decided to proceed with the new venture, an expensive monthly devoted to business, even after the Crash. In a 1929 communiqué, they declared: "We will go ahead and publish, but we shall be realistic. We shall recognize that this slump may last as long as one year...