Word: democraticizing
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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At hearings of the Senate Committee on Energy and Natural Resources, the subject was world oil supplies, but Democratic Senator Frank Church was so peeved by the economic failures of his own Administration that he swept the horizon: "We are running up the largest balance of payments deficit in our...
Any rise in the price of imported oil coming out of the OPEC meeting in Geneva is also going to hurt Carter's struggling anti-inflation program. The President invited Democratic congressional leaders to a White House breakfast last week and talked worriedly about the economy. Carter confessed to...
The fact that peace has its hazards ?and that it will cost U.S. taxpayers a large amount of money (see box)?should not dim the luster of Carter's diplomatic triumph. Reaction to it has nearly been unanimously positive. "A minor miracle," exclaimed Jim Wright, Democratic majority leader...
Only five cases have ever tested Colorado's ERA but, says Democratic Congresswoman Patricia Schroeder, "seven years ago, single women were not allowed in some restaurants in downtown Denver at lunch hour. No women even served on school boards. Now state chairs of both parties are women. There has...
A hard drinker who often suffered bouts of melancholy, Brandt grew increasingly depressed. He kept the title of chairman of the Social Democratic Party (SPD), but the popularity of his successor, Chancellor Helmut Schmidt, further eroded Brandt's power within his own party. Still, he remained active as SPD...