Word: nonetheless
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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Granted such caveats, the elections nonetheless mark a new point of departure in American politics. They answer at least in part the growing demands of moderate Negro leaders like the Urban League's Whitney Young to "give us some victories" to offset the revolutionary preachings of black extremists. Even more important, the success of Stokes and Hatcher underscores an important new stage in the Negro's political evolution. Neither of the new mayors fits the traditional mold of the ghetto politician, seeking and getting solely Negro support and campaigning principally on racial issues in the style of Adam...
...Nonetheless, Stokes emerged from the primary as the clear favorite in the general election. He was an experienced, chipper, charismatic campaigner who could beguile white suburban clubwomen at tea and rap with soul brothers in Hough. He was a Democrat in a town that had not elected a Republican mayor in the past 26 years. And his opponent was Seth Taft, 44, who bore the multiple burdens of a stiff presence, the wrong party label plus nephewship to the "Mr. Republican" who co-authored the Taft-Hartley Act, longtime anathema to organized labor...
Ghosts. Within two days, all the names purged from the registration lists were quietly restored. Nonetheless, Clark dispatched 22 FBI agents to Gary. They began photographing records in Lake County's Crown Point courthouse, and made a name-by-name check of new voters in white neighborhoods. Soon they found enough evidence of registration irregularities for a Government suit charging discrimination...
...money into making more computers and the other equipment necessary to run a modern economy. "While we are preparing for a military war, which doubtless will never happen," says Jean-Jacques Servan-Shreiber, general director of the weekly magazine L'Express, "we are losing the industrial war." Nonetheless, the French Assembly, which has had many a battle over appropriations for the force, has given up fighting De Gaulle over it. Last week, while Papa de Gaulle viewed his growing baby, it passed a new force de frappe budget with hardly a murmur of dissent...
...called discount stores are nonetheless multiplying fast; they now account for about $15 billion in annual sales. S. S. Kresge Co., which last year passed Korvette as the biggest discount chain, has 204 K Mart discount stores and plans to add 50 new ones in the next year. In the face of such breathless expansion, as well as the aggressive stances of established department stores, many a marginal discounter may be doomed. A discount furniture store in Atlanta, for example, went broke after Rich's, the city's largest department store, consistently matched its prices...