Word: majority
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...Camp David, President Jimmy Carter, Egyptian President Anwar Sadat and Israeli Premier Menachem Begin emerged Sunday night to sign before the television cameras and the watching world two documents that were giant efforts toward peace in the Middle East. Though considerable obstacles and hard bargaining remain, it was a major breakthrough in areas that have defied all the efforts of war and diplomacy for three decades. The outcome was substantially more than anyone except perhaps Host Jimmy Carter had believed possible before the summit began?and immensely more than had been anticipated right up to the Sunday on which...
...YORK--The publishers of the city's three major dailies yesterday put off a decision on a federal mediator's proposal to reopen the stalled contract talks saying they are waiting for some sign from the striking pressmen's union...
Press releases on "the people's tax reform" riffled around the room, and various governors were issuing timely calls for some kind of major tax reform...
...reform, when the final score was in, not one of the association's tax reform proposals was passed. Thomson's resolution demanding constitutional limits on state and federal spending garnered only ten votes (not surprisingly), and a proposal by Gov. James Hunt of North Carolina calling for major reductions in the federal budget did not even make it past the opening round of discussion...
...Nowadays, everyone thinks of himself as an athlete in some fashion," Reardon says. But he notes that the major growth in the number of athletes at Harvard has come--especially during the last year--because of the explosion in women's athletics...