Word: loses
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...Taft-Hartley Act in 1965 because his state fiercely favored the section-though today he says that as President, he would work for repeal. Just two weeks ago, he told a liberal Harvard Law School audience that he was against gun control. "I know I'm going to lose some of you on that one, but that's where I am." Then he added, "I don't claim total courage; I don't claim total wisdom." The hall exploded with applause...
...most troubles Wilson is the Scottish Nationalists. Since the government's tepid proposals for "devolving" more power to the regions merely fanned the Scots' demands for more self-government, the Nationalists are still gaining support. If an election were held now, concedes a Wilson adviser, Labor would lose as many as 15 of its 41 Scottish seats to the Nationalists; the Scots would then hold the balance of power in Parliament...
...dropped out, Texas' Lloyd Bentsen and North Carolina's Terry Sanford. After the 1980 census, if the current population shifts continue, the states of the South and West will increase their total congressional representation from 210 to 225 seats. The states of the Northeast and Midwest will lose 15 of their seats, declining to 210. Yet the old Southern conservatism is losing some of its force, for reasons that have to do more with actuarial necessity than with migration. The Southern barons in Congress, the men re-elected term after term so that they could use the seniority...
...that they are actually drier than at the onset of the great drought of '34. Starved for moisture, the rich topsoil in hard-hit areas of the Great Plains is turning into a fine brown silt. Winds hurl the dust particles against the still-growing sprouts, until they lose their color...
BROWN-CORNELL--I didn't give Cornell much credit Tuesday, and gave Brown perhaps too much. The Big Red knows what it's like to play in the Garden, while the Bruins have been known to, well, lose certain big games. This one will be close, but I'm rooting for the squad from Providence. Brown 5, Cornell...