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...McGovern must establish himself strongly. However, Dallas, Houston and San Antonio all have large suburban populations, and it is the suburbanites of the south who have so admired Nixon for his stand on busing. Whether the black and chicano minorities from the cross-town sections of Texas cities can offset their power remains to be seen...
...history, the fertility level has dropped to 2.1 births per woman. This means that the fertility rate is down to the replacement level: if it continues at that level for a few more generations, and if emigration equals immigration, the number of births every year will just offset the number of deaths, and the U.S. population will become stabilized...
...FILM Drew is a nice but naive man who can't back it in the wilderness. The river adventures are so harrowingly detailed that we accept the necessity for survival ethics unquestionably doesn't attain a supernatural aura of self sufficiency and Bob's upset is offset by quiet strength (in the book he is an unmitigated bore). These two seam for the peace of their homes they hit land. And the only time we glimpse Lewis outside of his natural element is as he recuperates in a hospital...
...inflation would be high: freezing or cutting social programs that may not always have been effective but are nonetheless directed at genuine and often pressing needs. At minimum, Washington would be shifting a heavy fiscal burden onto already hard-up states and cities. That burden would be only partly offset by general revenue sharing. Even worse, Nixon's budget plans imply that he is willing to settle for an unemployment rate leveling off at about 5%, meaning that 910,000 more Americans would be out of work than if the U.S. pushed on to the traditional "full employment" target...
...Crimson's lack of enthusiasm, in the early stages was offset, to an extent, by some good individual play, but the extra pass, the open men missed, and sloppy teamwork prevented the Crimson from completely embarrassing the Engineers...