Word: givens
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...many ways, this absence of hostility toward Carter is remarkable, given the bleak popular mood. The State of the Nation indicator, a TIME index measuring how people feel things are going in the country and their confidence in the future, registered a low of 19% in the most recent survey. A year ago, the indicator was 34% and in March 1977, shortly after Carter took office, it stood...
...accused them of concocting false charges against Jordan in order to bargain for leniency. Landau, who said he had met Jordan at various receptions and dinners, has no such obvious ax to grind, though he is a crony of Rubell's. Said he, in a sworn statement given...
...month. So far, the U.S. has taken in some 50,000 boat people and other refugees from the current upheaval, the highest total by far of any Western host country. New arrivals, who tend to cluster in California and the Gulf Coast region of Texas, are given free English lessons and job training, and access to Medicaid and welfare. Nine major voluntary agencies, including the U.S. Catholic Conference and the Protestant Church World Service, match arrivals with reliable sponsors who will help them adjust to their new life. The U.S. gives the voluntary agencies $350 per refugee...
...promised to be a superb day of cruising. Joining him were his daughter, Lady Patricia Braourne, 55, her husband Lord Brabourne, 54, their twin sons Timothy and Nicholas, 14, and Lord Brabourne's mother, the Dowager Lady Brabourne, 82. An Ulster schoolboy, Paul Maxwell, 15, whom Mountbatten had given the coveted summer job of boat boy, cast off the moorings, and the Shadow V, powered by a three-cylinder diesel engine, slowly eased beyond the harbor's protecting stone walls until it cleared the long jetty...
...reception accorded to Vice President Walter Mondale in China last week scarcely matched the tumultuous welcome given Chinese Vice Premier Deng Xiaoping in the U.S. last January, but it was the warmest on record for an American leader. Deng, an honor guard and a brass band were on hand at Peking airport to meet Mondale, his wife Joan and daughter Eleanor, 19, at the start of the seven-day visit. The Chinese were expecting that months of diplomatic courtship on both sides finally would be followed by tangible aid from the U.S. The Vice President did not disappoint them...