Word: lesses
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...bargain-filled U.S. They are destined to become a familiar part of the American landscape: buying, bargaining, hitchhiking, backpacking, snapping pictures, sampling strange food and occasionally getting ripped off by predators who know they carry a lot of dollars, however devalued. The ailing greenback has at least made America less of a mystery to the rest of the world...
Supporters, led by Ted Kennedy, insisted that the District is as worthy of national representation as several states. Seven states, in fact, have fewer residents than the District's 700,000; eleven pay less federal income tax; ten had fewer men killed in Viet Nam. Senate Majority Leader Robert Byrd referred to the District's status as "conscription without representation." While conservative Republicans generally opposed the measure, Democratic liberals strongly favored it. There were some notable exceptions, however. Two G.O.P. presidential hopefuls?Howard Baker and Robert Dole?voted aye. So did onetime Segregationist Strom Thurmond, who needs every black vote...
Shortly after that, the process of selecting a new President will begin. Two factions within the ruling party, the Kenya African National Union, may enter candidates; both groups are more or less dominated by Kenyatta's politically powerful tribe, the Kikuyu. The first includes the Kenyatta family and its political cronies, whose power is tribally based. The strongest member of the group is former Foreign Minister Njoroge Mungai, 52, who was also Kenyatta's cousin and personal physician. But the handsome Mungai lost his parliamentary seat in 1974, largely because of his reputation for high living, and thus...
...second group, headed by Acting President Moi, is made up of politicians and business leaders who are mainly Western educated. Their power is derived from their wealth and urban business connections. Moi, a hard-working but color less politician, is actually a member of the minority Kalenjin tribe. But he is strongly supported by two competent Kikuyu members of the Kenyatta Cabinet, Attorney General Charles Njonjo, 58, and Finance and Economic Planning Minister Mwai Kibaki...
Failure to expand membership, of course, is one reason for this loss of power. The smaller the proportion of workers that he speaks for, the less influence a union leader has with a politician. In Massachusetts, the state AFL-CIO, hit by sagging membership, lacks the $150,000 that it needs to computerize its lists of voters. Knowing that the unions' ability to turn out the vote has declined, Bay State politicos feel less obligated to court labor...