Word: gaps
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...another sector, where respect for rules has been breaking down and correct expression is considered almost a badge of dishonor." Deterioration thus stems from large changes the country underwent in the '60s: the rise of the environment issue; the new assertion of demands by minority groups; the generation gap; the rise of television...
Nixon came to the White House with a deep distaste for the CIA. He blamed the agency in part for his presidential defeat in 1960. The CIA, Nixon told his close aides, had aided John Kennedy's candidacy with phony figures about the missile gap between the U.S. and the Soviet Union...
...famous 18½-rninute gap on a tape of a White House conversation between Nixon and H.R. Haldeman on June 20, 1972, still has not been explained. Investigators have narrowed the list of suspects to Nixon, Haldeman, Secretary Rose Mary Woods and onetime Presidential Aide Stephen Bull...
...political difficulty is that an excise tax and price decontrol would both require approval by Congress, which could decide to debate the matter into 1976. Thus the White House is considering kicking off its energy-conservation program with a stop-gap tariff on oil imports that Ford could impose by Executive order. The Administration's program would unfold in three stages...
...security demands the bridging of the gap between the rich and the poor nations. The U.N. can be part of the bridge, rather than part of the gap, if we will make the necessary effort...