Word: obviously
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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Devine is but one of a fluctuating group of Republican legislators to whom Carter owes his main successes in Congress. The importance of G.O.P. support is most obvious in foreign affairs. Led by Minority Leader Howard Baker, 16 Republican Senators helped provide the one-vote margin that ensured passage of the Panama Canal treaties. Republican Senators voted 26 to 11 to authorize the sale of F-15s to Saudi Arabia, whereas Democrats opposed...
...undereducated of Americans?despite their own deep belief in the maxim, Saber es poder (Knowledge is power). Only 40% have completed high school, vs. 46% of U.S. blacks and 67% of the whites. In urban ghetto areas, the school dropout rate among Hispanics frequently reaches 85%. Language is an obvious handicap, but the vocal Hispanic demand for bilingual education raises particular problems...
...Look at the Franciscan motto, 'To work is to pray,'" Robinson noted, "and it's obvious that the word 'wonk' is just 'know' spelled backwards...
...strike, do everything I could to keep it (the strike) going. People just don't recognize the insidious effects of television...People don't read anymore, they just turn on the tube...They get so used to things being made obvious and explicit, getting hit over the head...I don't know how to combat...
...anyone really believes that Huntington, et. al., were "wrong" in encouraging U.S. destruction in Vietnam, it should be obvious that that caricature of a "war" was the inevitable result of political-economic theories and values which Huntington and scores of other professors here believe in and regularly dish out as gospel truth in classes every day, unchallenged by students. Such professors' inability to see that socialism has a fundamental and genuine appeal to oppressed peoples everywhere, and that privilege and wealth are detested by the poor, blinds them to the essential justness of "revolutionary" movements in the Third World...