Word: distinctively
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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Quebec's claim to a distinct identity has for centuries made it Canada's problem child. Novelist MacLennan described the historical relationship between French-and English-speaking Canadians as "the two solitudes." Roman Catholic, French-speaking, stamped by a different culture and tradition, the mostly rural Quebecois lived a separate life from that of the province's Protestant, English-speaking minority, which centered its activities around Montreal and the nearby Eastern Townships. For the Anglophone elite, the hub of Quebec life was Montreal's fashionable Sherbrooke Street, within easy distance of the banks and big businesses that they dominated almost...
...whereas past Mississippi leaders helped forge an alliance between the small landed proprietors and the amorphous bourgeoisie, the sinews of Cliff Finch's power steam from a different coalition of two fairly distinct socio-economic classes-the blue-collar laborers living in the industrial centers of the state and the tenacious Mississippi farmers who eke out subsistence wages on their 100 or so acres of soil. This time the middle-class--the Chamber of Commerce set--has been left out in the cold...
...Republicans), claiming it was large enough to threaten "vitally needed urban and social welfare programs." Noting an Urban League study that puts black unemployment at 13.2% (v. 6.3% for whites), Jordan called for increases in job-training funds and public service employment, proposals that most Republicans greet with a distinct chill. Before the Republican National Committee, Jesse Jackson called for a domestic Marshall Plan to revitalize the nation's cities. In spite of such obstacles, Brock insists that black voters can be won to traditional Republican economics. "What have Democratic proposals done for blacks?" he asks. "Thirty-seven percent...
...philosophy, however, there appear to be distinct though hard-to-measure differences between the incoming and outgoing chairmen. Burns saw inflation as Public Enemy No. 1. Miller gives equal priority to reducing unemployment and has often said that price stability and full employment are not incompatible goals...
Besides businessmen, the movement has other converts and friends in high places. The most notable: Jimmy Carter, of course, and Oregon's Senator Mark Hatfield, one of the first Northern politicians to espouse Evangelical values at a time when religion, and that kind of religion particularly, was a distinct political liability except in the South...