Word: dente
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...white unemployment rates in New Bedford, which has sprouted no new industry since the decline of the whaling trade, reaches 30 per cent, the highest in the country. Extensive government funding in the past several years has failed to make a dent in these statistics...
...quite grasped the tumult of feelings involved in being black? He may have underestimated the less obvious, lingering forms of discrimination that are so galling to blacks precisely because they are often too subtle to combat. If it is true that many federal programs have failed to make a dent in the city's poverty, this does not mean that others should not be tried; public housing, for example, remains a requirement for the poor at a time when not much other housing is available...
Though he maintained he had not spoken to Nixon personally, Carswell said: "You can be sure of one thing. I would not have left the Fifth Circuit Court unless I felt I had a friend somewhere"-presumably Dent. This left the appearance of a White House broken promise...
...over the seven seats needed for the Republican Senate control he wants. Putting Carswell on the ballot would also allow Cramer to retain his House seat and the 16 years of seniority that go with it. And certainly so astute a politician as Richard Nixon would not allow Harry Dent to go that far out on a limb without his permission...
...Nixon's spokesman claims there was "no presidential involvement" in the Carswell candidacy. He confirmed that Dent had been informed of Carswell's plans, but says that was the limit of the White House's role. It is difficult to believe that Nixon, who built his comeback on party loyalty, would allow Cramer to be so undercut by Claude Kirk. It was Cramer who helped hold the Florida delegation for Nixon in the 1968 convention, after Kirk had switched to Nelson Rockefeller...