Word: either
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...York's Democratic Governor Hugh Carey won 52% of the vote in a contest with Lieutenant Governor Mary Anne Krupsak and State Senator Jeremiah Bloom. Spending $1.5 million-ten times as much as either of his opponents-Carey veered sharply to the right during the campaign, emphasizing his efforts to restore fiscal solvency to New York City and his modest state tax cuts. Though playing up his slight stiffening of the juvenile crime laws, he remained firmly opposed to capital punishment. This is the issue that will be stressed by his G.O.P. adversary, Long Island State Assemblyman Perry Duryea...
...students have been recruited for their snouts. For $1, they sniff a gauze-covered black jar containing either treated manure or the real thing straight from the pig. The odor is rated on a scale of one to ten, ten being malodorous enough to blow off your socks. No students are getting rich on the deal. Experts hold that the nose gets desensitized after too much exposure to such powerful smells. The daily limit: nine sniffs...
...wealth from richer citizens to poorer ones through various forms of transfer payments-it has gone about as far as it can. Transfer payments, such as Social Security and welfare benefits, account for more of the federal budget than anything else, including defense, and probably cannot be increased further, either as a practical or a political matter. The public's mood, as Conable described it, is, "Quit all this talking about equity, and cut my taxes...
Nuclear fusion, which could exploit an unlimited fuel supply and promises little contamination of the environment, cannot fill the gap either. Researchers at Princeton and other labs have made some progress on fusion, in which atomic nuclei are combined rather than split. But physicists think it will take decades of problem solving before they can even attempt to build commercial reactors...
Puig-Antich has also been studying the families of suicidal children. He has found that half of all relatives, going back to grandparents, are either alcoholics or depressives. Such familial patterns have led some researchers to wonder whether there may be a genetic factor in the kind of depression that sometimes leads to suicide. "My hypothesis is that there is one," says Puig-Antich. Yet like other scientists, he concedes that the tendency of depression to run in families may only mean that distraught parents often pass on their troubles to their children. Whatever the cause of the suicidal drive...