Word: longer
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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That may have been true in the past. But no longer. Last week, as Pope John Paul II made his triumphal progress through Poland, the watching world began to grasp what people in Rome and the highly conservative Vatican Curia have known for months: this Pope not only sings, but he sings out. He also kisses babies, cuts red tape, says what he thinks, has an actor's (or a politician's) delight in an audience, and a former laborer's gift for gauging the common touch of a crowd...
...choice was based on the Communists' decision that they would not take a back seat to the dominant Socialists if the leftist coalition came to power. Marchais concluded that the Socialists would hog the credit for major social and economic reforms, thereby suggesting to workers that they no longer needed the Communists to defend their interests...
...UNlTA's objectives: We will approach step by step the day when the Cubans and Russians find that it is impossible for them to stay any longer. That will be our first victory. From there, we will be ready to talk with the M.P.L.A. and to explain, even if it takes us years, that we have at last proved that foreign interference of that kind does not solve any problems. Ultimately, we want democratic elections and a coalition government between UNITA, M.P.L.A. and the F.N.L.A...
...dependent on scarce supplies of diesel and heating oil as Americans are, and they too get deliveries from the Caribbean refineries. The Carter Administration claims that the Europeans' panicky, pay-any-price mentality has lured so much Caribbean production to the Continent that U.S. importers are no longer receiving their fair share. The Europeans retort angrily that Washington's subsidies are just pushing up prices even higher and that the U.S. is actually getting all the oil that it normally does in the first place...
Also, Congress is gaming much better control over rabbit-hole spending by moving toward longer planning. Says Rivlin: "The most important thing that happened with the fiscal 1980 budget is that Congress for the first time went beyond a single year's spending and voted at least tentative budget targets for three years. Now we have been pushing for five-year goals." These goals will help legislators make cuts in spending on an orderly basis with plenty of advance notice. As she says, "You really wouldn't want to live in a country where many programs are changed...