Word: fervors
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...many blows to the aerospace industry. The industry's biggest customer, the Defense Department, has cut back considerably on its orders for military planes and missiles. Following the course of the nation's disengagement from Viet Nam, defense funds have been pared for two straight years. The decreasing fervor for space feats has also hurt. The National Aeronautics and Space Administration this year has a budget of $3 billion, or a little more than half as much as three years...
Polls conducted by Soviet sociologists show a surprisingly low degree of ideological fervor among the educated young. When 2,204 graduate students in Leningrad were asked "What are your desires for the near future?", 60.6% replied that they wanted interesting jobs, while only 18.4% chose the good Communist option of wanting to participate in the construction of a new industrial complex. In a sampling of workers attending political study groups in the Estonian capital of Tallin, less than 1% said they were interested in learning about the philosophy of Communism...
...predicted Muhammad Ali three years ago, after the World Boxing Association, in a fit of moral fervor, stripped him of his heavyweight title because he had been convicted of draft evasion. Ali's prophecy was at least half right. Never more than a scene-stealing shout away from ringside, keeping in the headlines with a flurry of lectures and boasts, the champ-in-exile did indeed haunt the sport. He was a titleholder stripped of his rights?not by the fists of another fighter but by decree of a pretentious body of boxing executives...
Garry said that the "fervor" of American youth has apparently decreased so that they feel "the same degree of helplessness as my generation...
...McCarthy holds second-place in the political hearts of college students. He outdistances. Muskic, Kennedy and McGovern. However, the poll registers all opinions. Among politically active students, McCarthy is doubtless regarded with less esteem. And while most students admire McCarthy, they would not support him with the old fervor...