Word: pasts
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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Politics is the life force at the center of Government, and the attempt to retreat from it is one of the worst mistakes of the past two years. Just about the time that Jimmy Carter seemed to be developing the necessary skills of power brokering, he picked up that sappy idea for a single six-year presidential term, which he thinks would allow a President to "ignore politics" and "stay away from any sort of campaign plans and so forth...
Only three times in the past 45 years has there been anything like it: a Senate committee hearing that amounts to a public trial of one of the upper chamber's own members. And in this case, one of its most powerful members: Democrat Herman Eugene Talmadge, 65, Senator from Georgia since 1957; seventh in seniority among all 100 Senators; chairman of the powerful Agriculture Committee and second in command on the tax-writing Finance Committee; dynastic political leader of his home state for decades. Last week the six-member Senate Ethics Committee began hearing testimony on five charges...
...vote of confidence in March, both major parties emphasized that Britain faced a clear choice. Callaghan offered a continuation of the moderate social democratic policies that have dominated British political and economic life since the end of World War II. Thatcher presented a clear break with the socialist past, advocating a return to the market economy and a retrenching of Britain's welfare state. As some commentators saw it, Labor, in a reversal of traditional roles, had become the party of established orthodoxy, while the Conservatives advocated radical reform...
...Chelsea routine can be kept is another matter. Normally, Thatcher is up at 6:30 a.m. to cook Denis' breakfast and do the shopping before heading off for Parliament. She likes sales and takes pride in being a bargain hunter. But time has become so precious that for the past few years she has bought her clothes?usually neatly tailored suits and blouses, often from Marks & Spencer?on twice-a-year bulk-buying sprees. Even the Queen sometimes appears slightly wind-blown in public, but Thatcher is invariably coifed and lacquered against the elements. She has already advised the staff...
...economy is roaring along with a growth rate of 25% a year, one of the highest in the world. Per capita income has risen from $180 in 1972 to $480 last year, and the country's foreign exchange reserves have doubled to $150 million in the past two years...