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Word: highers (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1970-1979
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...unsophisticated, maybe 80% plus, are beginning to put the Fed in the same class as OPEC. Both are pushing prices higher...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Letters, Nov. 12, 1979 | 11/12/1979 | See Source »

Approval of Carter's handling of the nation's affairs has not increased. In fact, confidence in his economic, energy and foreign policies is dismally low (none has a favorable rating higher than...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Nation: Kennedy's Lead Is Shrinking | 11/12/1979 | See Source »

...about it? His craftsmanship is clear in his depiction of supermarket and bridge-club life. But those in the John Gardner camp of moral fiction would charge that Updike's skillfulness does not become a vision until he guides his characters, and thus his readers, to the higher ground of moral purpose...

Author: By Susan C. Faludi, | Title: The Meaning of a Missing Sock | 11/10/1979 | See Source »

...these three goals need to uphold and to expand the tenuous progressive majority that has ruled Cambridge city government for several years. Incumbents Saundra Graham, Francis Duehay, Mary Ellen Preusser, Alfred E. Vellucci and David Wylie all have solid progressive voting records. Without these five, rents would be higher and an even larger percentage of Cambridge housing would be condominiums...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Progressive Majority | 11/5/1979 | See Source »

Kevin White seems to have convinced citizens he can run a city in which both the new gentry and the middle class can live. The trend, however, is squeezing the poor. Both poor blacks and poor whites will find the pressures of living in an urban Beverly Farms--with higher property values and a more liberal social climate--too much to bear. Those that can afford to save enough will move to Quincy, Milton and the other inner suburbs; those who cannot will turn on the nearest and most vulnerable scapegoat--each other...

Author: By Dewitt C. Jones iv and Elizabeth H. Wiltshire, S | Title: The Road Ahead | 11/5/1979 | See Source »

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