Word: forme
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...define "not much" as jobs, moderate supermarket prices, reasonable mortgage rates, good schools, a healthy environment and safe streets. Providing all that in today's world economy is quite an order, even for a pragmatist. On other occasions, Kennedy has seemed to be harking back to a 19th century form of liberalism. In his New York speech, he said: "We are making a clean break with the New Deal and even the 1960s. We reject the idea that Government knows best across the board, that public planning is inherently superior or more effective than private action. There...
...energy, Kennedy originally opposed ending Government regulation of crude oil prices, calling decontrol "the worst form of rationing because it is rationing by price." Nowadays, however, he seems resigned to Carter's decision to abolish price controls. Kennedy is also skeptical of Carter's synthetic-fuels program. The Senator favors encouraging conservation, and he has proposed making available $34 billion in grants and loans to homeowners and industry for energy-saving projects...
...This is no time for political macho.'' The historian pointed out that this new form of campaigning also would lift the election process ''out of the ruck of sidewalk hawking and handshaking to a decent level of rational debate.'' Replied Kennedy: ''I agree with Burns. I think that I am going to have to campaign differently.'' By last week Burns' advice was plainly forgotten. The political juices were flowing, and Ted Kennedy was plunging without hesitation into the crowds...
...gallstones both there and in the bile duct; the blockage had caused the Shah to turn yellow from jaundice. The surgeons also took lymph nodes from his neck and a slice from his liver, and afterward made a more serious announcement: the Shah was suffering from histiocytic lymphoma, a form of cancer of the lymphatic system. The disease also involved his spleen, but, said the hospital's physician in chief, Dr. Hibbard Williams, ''some potential for cure exists.'' He added that the Shah would remain at the hospital for six weeks and might require...
...year to around $1,500. South Korea now has a gross national product of some $50 billion (four times that of North Korea), and is a hard-bargaining rival to Japan in exports of steel, ships and textiles. New superhighways cut through the countryside; high-rise offices and apartments form towering sky lines in Korean cities. Rare among developing societies, South Korea has steered development capital to the countryside, so that rural Koreans live marginally better than their city cousins. In this, at least, Park Chung Hee did not forget the lessons of his childhood...