Word: mained
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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Similarly, 56% said that "inflation, high prices and the economy" were the main problems the country faces, but only 10% thought Carter has done well in dealing with these concerns. Kennedy ranked twice as high as Carter in people's confidence in dealing with energy and the economy. When Iran is no longer the chief concern of the voters, Kennedy will again have an exploitable issue with which to attack Carter...
...last week when he announced that he would ask Congress for an increase in defense spending of close to 5% a year, adjusted for inflation. Speaking to the U.S. Business Council in the White House East Room, Carter left no doubt that keeping up with the Soviets was the main motive for revising his thinking, but he cited the crisis in Iran as a "vivid reminder of the need for a strong and united America ... which need not bluff or posture in the quiet exercise of its strength...
...without escort except for a 20-mile stretch near the Thai border, Labbe first rode from Sai- Saigon to Phnom-Penh, where he shot pictures of the devastated Cambodian capital beginning to stir to life again amid the rubble of war. He then drove along Cambodia's main arteries, Highways 5 and 6, visiting twelve provinces in a journey that totaled 1,000 miles...
Although he had a security clearance, Shinkle did not have access, Sandia insists, to the company's two main computers, which contain the classified material. The one that Shinkle is said to have used, says Sandia, had only unclassified material. Still, FBI agents and officials at the Department of Energy, which underwrites the work at Sandia, were shocked that Shinkle could get such easy access to any company computer. James P. Crane, the DOE official in charge of security at Sandia, said last week that he had set up new monitoring procedures and restricted access to the computers...
...nothing to sulk about, even if the band is not in the highest OPEC aristocracy of rock. This is a matter of no particular moment to the group. It coasts past trends and floats over sales curves just by staying a little outside and to the left of the main current...