Word: frequently
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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Clearly, the Real Paper, with a circulation of 100,000 (some of it distributed free) makes frequent bows to popular business practices in order to survive. In that sense it is part of, but estranged from, the capitalist business community that it must look to for support. Kopkind doesn't think collectively-owned newspapers are doomed, but he thinks their chances are better if they receive encouragement from the community...
Such cheer has yet to percolate among many ordinary people, who have learned to distrust official forecasts and have been turned off by Washington's frequent abrupt changes in economic policy. Jay Schmiedeskamp of the University of Michigan's respected Survey Research Center reports that "the level of consumer confidence is still greatly depressed." The center's latest survey, conducted during February, showed that only 8% of the questioned consumers expected to enjoy good times within the next five years; 61% expected hard times. The unemployed (8 million active job seekers, plus 1.1 million people who have...
...resign or at least leave the country. The majority of his generals have been increasingly open in urging the President to go. So have been most of the cabinet and nearly all members of the bicameral National Assembly. An ad hoc coalition of top Cabinet and military leaders, in frequent audiences with Lon Nol, have been trying to convince him that his continued presence in the capital could lead to an eventual bloodbath...
...uneconomic undertakings." Some knowledgeable defense contractors and electronics makers doubted the Glomar Explorer's stated purpose because of the extraordinary specifications of contracts, such as those for the giant grappling hooks and the cryptographic equipment. The fact that the seamen of the Glomar Explorer were not permitted to frequent the usual Long Beach bars aroused local curiosity...
...refugees fled for a variety of reasons. Some may have feared that government bombing attacks would follow Communist absorption of their lands; indeed, in the months just after the Paris Peace Agreement, Saigon subjected Viet Cong-held areas to frequent air raids. Others, especially merchants or landowners, may have feared that the Communists would confiscate their property or worse, arrest them as "exploiters of the people." Residents of Hue in particular have not forgotten the mass executions that took place when the Communists controlled the city during the 1968 Tet offensive. Most of the refugees simply seemed to be afraid...