Word: either
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...next Pope will probably be a moderate reformer like Paul, rather than a member of either the extreme liberal or conservative wings of the Church, Powers said. The new Pontiff "must be sensitive to many different elements within the Church," he added...
...bill, which finally passed the House in April, came up last week before Senator Abraham Ribicoff's Governmental Affairs Committee?and was promptly consigned to either imminent death or limbo by the lobbyists. Leading the assault against it were such diverse persuaders as William Timmons, the former Capitol Hill liaison man for the Nixon and Ford Administrations, Freelancers Maurice Rosenblatt and William Bonsib, and Diane Rennert of the Association of American Publishers. In a multiple assault, they first threw their weight behind a much milder version of the bill, which was substituted for Ribicoff's stiff version. Despite telephone calls...
...there are better chances for the administrative autonomy that we proposed rather than trying to draw a partition line which just doesn't exist. And when [the Laborites] talk about a declaration of principles, what do they mean? When you want to face reality, you must say I want either this or that. Does a declaration relieve you of sitting down and talking point by point about what will happen on the ground...
Political life has not been easy lately for either the Socialists or the Centrists. Popular discontent has been rising steadily. Inflation in Portugal during the first six months of 1978 has climbed to an annual rate of 21%. To get approval from the International Monetary Fund for $750 million in loans from a consortium of Western countries, Scares' government agreed to strict austerity measures that have drastically raised the price of food, transportation, fuel and other necessities. The wages of urban industrial workers have barely managed to stay ahead of the spiraling prices; rural workers are now worse...
...European currencies in which the German mark would weigh the most heavily. The ECU would be not a bill or a coin but a series of accounts that member governments would use. European currencies would be allowed to fluctuate around the ECU in a narrow band of 1% either way, and the ECU would float against the dollar. Moreover, when member nations intervened on foreign-exchange markets to support or depress their own currencies, they would no longer use dollars but any of the ECU currencies. Within the proposed currency union, payments between nations would be made in ECUS rather...