Word: globe
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...even in the farthest corners of the globe, they knew who Charles Colson was and what Woodward and Bernstein said he had done. They shook their heads as the president of the United States and his court tried to batter and beat the Constitution into submission. Everyday there was some new report out of Washington; Haldeman leaves the White House, Dean takes the stand, Nixon dodges the courts--the 18-minute gap heard round the world. Watergate captured imaginations in places they had never heard of Checkers or the Potomac and sent journalists scurrying to their wire machines to figure...
...final tally showed that Carter, who never left the White House, won 49% of the votes, vs. Kennedy's 38%. No matter how good a face Kennedy put on the outcome, it was still a bitter blow. Last September, early in the draft-Teddy boom, a Boston Globe poll showed Kennedy leading Carter in New Hampshire by better than 2 to 1. But when the Senator became an announced candidate, he plummeted in New Hampshire as elsewhere in the country. Voters questioned his stands on issues, wondered over his inept campaigning and brought up old doubts about Chappaquiddick...
...NIGHT WHIZZES, spinning like the strobe globe at the disco where you loosen your hips, grinding to a song you swore you hated when the deejay played it four times during the hour you sat on the highway edging toward her house, which you couldn't find because her handwriting is horrendous compared to her typing, which she used to get the job as a secretary in the firm where you work, filing paper and talking it over with the guy in your office who says he knows how to handle chicks and seems to be telling the truth because...
...arms manufacture can be converted to such necessary industries as mass transportation, solar energy, and solid waste disposal, using many of the present technologies. The federal government alone could create this change, first by reducing its own purchases of arms and restricting the sale of U.S. arms around the globe, then by offering loans to firms and communities planning conversion of munitions works. This would be similar to the Defense Production Act of 1950, which was used in just the opposite way--to convert civilian industries to armament production...
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