Word: drifting
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...rural picture is not so bright. More than 50% of the 866,000 rural black families are living below the official poverty line ($5,500 for a family of four). As agricultural jobs continue to dry up, unskilled blacks are being forced off the land. Some drift into the shabby single-family shacks in the ghettos of Southern cities; others travel to the denser ghettos of the North...
...Schlesinger Library's manuscript users, she found four subjects--education and educated women, employment and working class women, feminism and suffrage, and the woman and her body--overwhelmingly sought after at the Institute. She says the figures indicate the Library's current resources as well as the drift of public interest, and that some of the lesser studied subjects, like religion, abolition and immigrant women, may be more popular elsewhere...
Quite a chore to undertake in the best of times, let alone just seven weeks before a U.S. presidential election. But, as Kissinger argues, the risk of doing nothing is much greater. Unchecked, southern Africa will almost certainly drift into racial war. Whether the Soviet Union or any other foreign power could exploit such a phenomenon for long is doubtful, but the potential for short-term mischief making is awesome. Small wonder then that Kissinger is eager for one more crusade before he quits...
...bold reach to the left in hopes that he might pick up some of the "soft" Ford delegates in such states as Pennsylvania, New York and New Jersey. The calculated risk was that Reagan's conservative ideologues would grumble, but finally stay with him, while moderates would drift away from Ford. By the end of a tumultuous week, it was clear that the last-gasp Reagan strategy had failed. He had managed to hang on to his most conservative delegates, despite their screams of pain. But he had not achieved the ultimate goal of the whole operation: to shake...
Backstop Scheme. Some insurance officials feel that D.C. Superintendent Wallach let the situation drift too long before taking action. Says one executive: "It's inconceivable that a company of GEICO's size could run up such a loss in one year without Wallach saying 'Hey, fellas, what's going on here?' " In May GEICO directors ousted Chairman Norman L. Gidden, 59. New Chairman John J. Byrne, 44, has pulled GEICO out of New Jersey-a dismally unprofitable state-and pledged to trim by 20% the 2.4 million auto policies in force (there...