Word: low
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...sharp contrast to Thatcher's colorful road show, "Sunny Jim" Callaghan was waging a rather low-keyed, traditional campaign, appearing frequently at poorly attended rallies on behalf of Labor candidates for Parliament. Callaghan and his aides traveled without fanfare on an executive jet, leaving the press to catch up as best it could on whatever planes and trains were available. As a result, he was getting less national attention than the Tory leader...
...soldier from the elite Simba Battalion, once the bulwark of Amin's forces, speaking to a Western newsman near the Kenya border: "His Excellency is on the radio every morning telling us what to do. He is trying to bring war machinery from outside. He says to lie low and wait. He says for us to save enough bullets...
Myth 1: Defense spending is at a relatively low level, particularly since Vietnam...
...low morale of the American public stems from the failure of intellectuals to find a national purpose, Patricia L. Harris, secretary of Housing and Urban Development, said last night before about 150 people at the Kennedy School's ARCO Forum...
Recent experience has furnished no exception to this policy. In the wake of the Three Mile Island nuclear accident, Carter has reaffirmed his commitment to nuclear energy. With over 55 per cent of domestic uranium reserves and over one-third of all western low-sulphur coal located on Indian reservations, the native peoples will bear the brunt of Carter's energy policy. The land is leased, underground and strip mining commences, and people are relocated. The "Indian wars" are not over. In one year, according to Peter MacDonald, tribal chairman of the Navajo reservation, "The Navajo Nation exports enough energy...