Word: felting
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...their protest remains to be seen. Curiously, a Los Angeles Times poll after the balloting showed that 70% of those who supported 13 thought they would get by without any reduction in services. Many were interested simply in sending the government a message. The poll also showed that 22% felt the government provided too many unnecessary services. When asked which services they would be most willing to see cut, 69% said welfare...
...photographers and reworking his victory speech. A concession statement? Howard Jarvis did not see why he should waste his time. Sure enough, a few hours later, an ecstatic Jarvis stood on the podium in the Los Angeles Biltmore, blowing kisses to his screaming supporters. "Now we know how it felt when they dumped English tea in Boston harbor!" he exulted. Still in a buoyant mood, Jarvis told TIME, "We have a new revolution. We are telling the government, 'Screw you!' " Jarvis, 75, the man behind Proposition 13, calls himself "a rugged bastard who's had his head...
...letters went unanswered, he flew out to see the manufacturer, who told him: "We don't export -it's too much trouble." Unlike the aggressive, go-anywhere Yankee traders of old, modern American businessmen have long had at their doorstep the richest market on earth and felt far less pressure than their foreign counterparts to seek exports. But that could be changing...
...Zaire Carter's Mayaguez, unintentional or otherwise? Over at the State Department, where the blood runs thinner and cooler, they watched with fascination, felt the changing moods hour by hour. After Carter dined with France's President Giscard d'Estaing, who sent paratroopers to Kolwezi, the internal White House talk toughened. There was almost exhilaration, not an uncommon emotion in the White House when a good clean crisis is in the offing, with bad guys to denounce and admired allies standing shoulder to shoulder. Then a series of political meetings between Carter's domestic tacticians Hamilton Jordan and Jody Powell...
...case Congress did not get that message, Premier Ecevit was even more blunt last week. Saying that he felt "no threat" from the Soviet Union, Ecevit announced that he would visit Moscow later this month to sign a friendship agreement. "It's an increasingly smaller world," he told TIME State Department Correspondent Christopher Ogden. "It's natural there should be closer cooperation between countries of different alliances...