Word: islands
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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Most people, in some corner of their mental luggage, carry images of F.D.R., Churchill, Stalin, Gandhi, De Gaulle, Mao and other archetypes as large in memory as Easter Island moai heads...
...executive director of the Long Island Gasoline Retailers Association, Troy finds himself in the middle of another minefield. He professes to like his present work. "I don't have to run for re-election," he says. "I enjoy it more than politics. In politics, you're always at the mercy of the people...
...Since taking office in 1977, McClellan has got voter approval of bond issues totaling $141 million for remodeling the city and continuing Austin's participation in a nuclear-power venture. She is persuasive: she won the nuclear-power bond issue by 53% just ten days after the Three Mile Island incident...
...Sister Elizabeth Morancy, 38, wore the traditional black habit of the Sisters of Mercy and taught government in a parochial school until a few years ago. Last fall she was elected by a landslide to the Rhode Island state legislature from her home town of Providence. A graduate of Salve Regina College in Newport, R.I., she represents the Spanish-speaking, black, Laotian and blue-collar white residents of the city's 18th
...that point REMVEC sent out an order to electric companies in Eastern Massachusetts, Rhode Island and Vermont to cut back on their electrical load by interrupting service to a large number of customers," Harprey added...