Word: eras
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...turn out, of course, that with the passing of spring there will be little movement to lead. The intensity of the antiwar protests or even of the ERA and abortion rallies, has not materialized. Students, the usual backbone of demonstrations, seem ambivalent. Many liberal and labor groups are dubious. Says James Wall, Carter's 1976 Illinois campaign manager...
...Era at Ford Bravos and battles at Henry II's last annual meeting...
Hallie had never heard of Le Chambon until, by chance, in a vast collection of Holocaust documents, he came across a scant description of what the village had done. A professor of philosophy at Wesleyan University in Connecticut, Hallie was obsessively studying the cruelties of the Nazi era. As he read the few pages that told of Le Chambon, the researcher found his face covered with tears. That night he decided to pursue the story. Within a year he was in the village itself, interviewing, piecing together the chronicle of how the village had organized and functioned, how its leaders...
...forthright phrase of Amtrak President Alan Boyd, "a lot of junk." The situation might be called ridiculous if only in light of the universal recognition of the passenger train as the most expedient mode of moving large numbers of people from city to city. In an energy-short era, the railroad, fully exploited, offers the most fuel-efficient means of public transport...
...sign the treaty next month, they will be keeping alive a process that began with SALT I a dozen years ago and will continue?in SALT III, IV and V?for decades to come. The Strategic Arms Limitation Talks have been called the most important negotiations of the postwar era. But whether SALT II ever becomes the law of the land, indeed whether the SALT process is to continue, depends on the U.S. Senate, which must ratify the treaty by a two-thirds majority. The debate in the Senate over ratification will cover a range of questions, including...