Word: documented
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...section of that 75-page document states that no one shall be Governor who has not lived in the state for five years preceding the election. But Ravenel had been away for 15 years-at Harvard, where he became one of the nation's most celebrated quarterbacks, at Harvard Business School, and on Wall Street as an investment banker. He finally returned home in 1972. He was not even aware of the residency requirement until his wife Mollie came across it in a pamphlet put out by the League of Women Voters...
Land Deals. The opposition first surfaced a fortnight ago in the shattered former imperial capital of Hue, where 5,000 civilians gathered in front of the city's Roman Catholic cathedral to protest government corruption. The complaint was familiar enough, but the specifics were startlingly new. In a document that quickly circulated throughout the country, priests charged that Thieu had profited handsomely from housing and land deals, that his wife Nguyen Thi Mai had taken a rake-off from running a hospital that admits mostly well-to-do patients, and that his brother-in-law Nguyen Xuan Nguyen...
...dailies, which proceeded to scoop the Conservative Party with its own platform. Entitled "Putting Britain First," the manifesto puts the fight against inflation above everything else, warning bluntly that "because of the economic crisis, there is no room for early improvement in living standards." The political thrust of the document was clearly aimed as much at wooing back the hundreds of thousands of usually Tory voters who had defected to the Liberals as it was against Labor...
...analogy to the 1950s is only partly valid. Studies by Daniel Yankelovich, the public-opinion analyst who periodically surveys American youth, document the fact that the social and moral values that flourished on campus in the 1960s "have grown stronger and more powerful." More liberal sexual mores, a lessening of automatic obedience to established authority and skepticism about the U.S. political process seem to have become fixed characteristics of most American young people...
...life has been, obviously, influenced by my environment," he maintains. "When you are faced by an environment of institutionalized discrimination, it isn't necessary to seek individual cases to document that it exists...