Word: majority
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...each of John Paul's stops on this tour, local officials were hard pressed to cope with the intense public demand for a chance to see him. In Boston, authorities worried about paralyzing traffic jams and decided to ban automobiles on the city's major downtown thoroughfares...
...private meetings with U.S. Catholics, and especially during his session with the American Bishops' Conference in Chicago on Friday, the Pope intended to raise another of his major continuing concerns: the shortage of young men seeking to become priests. Aides said that he would make it clear, however, that he opposes trying to entice applicants by relaxing any traditional rules of the priesthood. In particular, he will not yield on the issue of celibacy...
...followed his strategy to hit Kennedy hard and early, Carter assailed the Senator's leadership claims in other ways last week. Declared the President at the New York town meeting: "Senator Kennedy has been in Congress 16 years. His major premise, or goal, has been to establish a comprehensive national health insurance policy for our country. He is chairman of the health subcommittee in the Senate. He's never gotten a comprehensive health bill out of his subcommittee." And by contrast, Carter could have cited one major example of his own legislative success last week: the passage...
Although these major issues will take a long time to resolve, the U.S. and Mexico have agreed to cooperate on less sensitive problems. They have launched bilateral ventures in arid land management, water control and the pooling of science and technology. Tijuana and San Diego are working on a joint program to control air pollution, which may become a model for other twin cities along the frontier. New pacts have been signed that should lead to greater cross-border cooperation in dealing with such crimes as narcotics smuggling and auto theft. And, as one State Department official puts...
...leftist successor, Lázaro Cárdenas, the P.R.I, was designed to prevent political disagreements from bursting into violence by drawing organizations that represented workers, campesinos and civil servants into its leadership. This corporatist approach has enjoyed remarkable success at the polls: the P.R.I, has never lost a major election, or even been threatened by the country's feeble opposition parties. But the price of P.R.I, dominance has been high. Says a prominent Mexican lawyer: "Politics has been the restricted domain of the official party for so long that most people are completely turned off. They have absolutely no interest...