Word: jims
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...Jim Rohde Lincoln Park, Mich...
...National Urban League and I happen to be black." When she insisted to 500 guests at a fund raiser in Dallas that "Jimmy is the best person to lead us through the energy crisis and the confidence crisis," the party faithful seemed skeptical. Said Harlingen City Commissioner Jim Werner: "The people should not be blamed for the energy crisis, but instead the man and his ill-assorted cronies." And at a fund raiser among the rich in Palo Alto, Calif, one guest remarked, "She's a little too evangelical for this audience...
...ideas, not leaders: the women's movement, the environmental movement, the fitness movement, for example. Those who participate seem to be too independent, too critical, too wary of the dangers of leadership to entrust themselves to others. The cautionary examples of cults?the followers of Sun Myung Moon or Jim Jones?merely confirm the wary in their independence...
North Carolina Governor Jim Hunt succeeded in pushing through a mandatory minimal competency test for high school graduation?normally one of those awful contests between reflexive liberals, who oppose standardized testing as unfair, and the Marines of morality, who want everyone to shape up. Strongly opposed by some blacks and teachers, Hunt tried to persuade the state that he did not wish to punish anyone but simply wanted to establish some basic levels of competence in education. When simple persuasion did not work, Hunt tried
...late Thurman Munson wishing to be traded from his world-champion ballclub to the Cleveland Indians, where he could live near his family. So terrible and inhumane is Cleveland to anyone but Munson, that Don Zimmer and Haywood Sullivan traded their most hated players--the Buffalo Heads (Rick Wise, Jim Willoughby, Ferguson Jenkins, and Bernie Carbo)--to the Indians, sparking one of the most imaginative and bizarre player protests of recent lore...