Word: difference
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...recent months the government's policies of controlling the money supply, resisting a consumer boom and restricting public expenditures could almost be described as conservative. How would your policy differ...
...every available topic on American life, including politics. He became most famous, though, for his short nonsense pieces and a weekly letter written for his nationally syndicated newspaper column. Lardner had a national following which today can only be compared to Jimmy Breslin, although the styles of the two differ tremendously--Breslin writing about busing riots and massive looting in a New York City blackout, while Lardner chose a much lighter subject matter, depicting the lives of boxers and family scenes, purely for the purpose of entertainment...
Carter backs ERA wholeheartedly, but he and Costanza do not always agree. There was grumbling when, prodded by other women in the Administration, she organized a meeting of women officials who protested the President's decision to cut off federal funds for abortion. Costanza has always differed with Carter on this issue. "It was not a rebellion," she told TIME Washington Correspondent Bonnie Angelo. "It was a chance to discuss how to make him aware of other viewpoints. I'm a living example that you can differ with Jimmy Carter. I disagreed with him on three major issues...
...month the Supreme Court decided, by a vote of 6 to 3, that the states and localities are free, if they wish, to deny Medicaid money for abortions. Both houses of Congress have made their contribution by passing provisions that forbid federal Medicaid payments for abortions, although the measures differ in severity...
Californians differ over when the dream fizzled. Those of a political bent say the end came last November, when the state bucked a Carter tide to vote for Hayakawa and Ford. Some argue that the peak came in '74, when gasoline shortages tarnished the freeways and exurbs anchoring California's lifestyle. Others insist that the curtain fell last year, when citizens realized the inevitability of an earthquake and the consequences of a drought. But everyone agrees that the California of the '60s a mystical land of abundance and affluence, vanished some time...