Word: difference
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...numerical shift anticipated for the 95th Congress may be small, but the personality of Congress when it convenes in January will differ markedly because of the retirement of many old standbys on the Hill. Both parties in the Senate are losing their leaders, Democrat Mike Mansfield of Montana and Republican Hugh Scott of Pennsylvania. In addition, such Democratic stalwarts as Philip Hart of Michigan and STuart Symington of Missouri are ending Senate careers that began in the 1950s...
There is no denying that the present unemployment if long continued would debilitate the nation. Though their prescriptions differ, Ford and Carter agree that the nation should not and cannot tolerate such unemployment. It will be difficult to get below the 5% "full employment" goal, in part because many people are merely "between jobs" or lack basic job skills. The difference between that 5% and the present level of nearly 8% is where the real unemployment problem lies. The Congressional Joint Economic Committee reckons that every 1% of unemployment costs the U.S. $18 billion in lost tax revenues and increased...
...Contrary to what many along the American political spectrum have argued, voters do face a distinct choice on Election Day 1976," read Thursday's Crimson editorial (October 28). I beg to differ. Strongly. At best the choice can be called ambiguous, and for many the vote for Carter will be a reluctant...
Schmidt said yesterday he believes the job does not differ much from his former position. Before taking over Daly's reins, Schmidt specialized in the federal end of the Government and Community Affairs office...
WHEN A MEMBER of the First Transkei Battalion steps forward today to replace the South African flag with the newly independent nation's ochre, green and white one, the ceremony will differ markedly from Mozambique's independence celebration almost exactly two years ago. In Mozambique, a cheering crowd heard President Samora Machel describe his people's lengthy struggle for liberation from the Portuguese colonists and his party's program for development and participatory democracy. Today in the Transkei, buried in the heart of apartheid South Africa, no one will cheer the new prime minister as he shakes hands with South...