Word: pasts
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...even come away with something like my own sense that what is regrettable in Jimmy's life now is your and my presence in his native place; the fact that he cannot return here in peace and roam as I've done in absolute stillness past his boyhood house, the neighboring hovels, the empty woods, the acres of graves just up the road at the site of the prison at Andersonville, where almost 13,000 men died in 14 months to feed brands of ignorance and malice still ravenous now as then-or spend a long evening...
...favorite of many committee members is Ronald Reagan, who is readily conceded by all competitors to be the front runner. Considering the ill fortune of such past early leaders as Republican George Romney in 1968 and Democrat Edmund Muskie in 1972, Connally said of Reagan: "I do not envy his position...
...Administration seemed determined to return the hospitality Peking has shown to a stream of American visitors over the past seven years: Richard Nixon and Gerald Ford, former Secretary of State Henry Kissinger (eight trips), Vance, National Security Adviser Zbigniew Brzezinski, Energy Secretary James Schlesinger...
Union members argue, with some justice, that they have already suffered enough from Britain's war on inflation. In 1975 they agreed to a "social contract," under which wage demands were held down in exchange for increased government benefits. Over the past three years, their restraint helped reduce inflation from 24.2% to about 8% last year. But, with Britain's economy bubbling from an infusion of North Sea oil, the unions feel it is time to recoup the sacrifices of the past. They regard Callaghan's effort to impose a 5% ceiling on settlements as a challenge...
Added McWhirter: "That is essentially why any remaining opposition miscalculates not only the momentum of the movement, but its deep and broad-based commitment to making profound social changes that will make any return to the past impossible. Observed an ex-army officer imprisoned for 15 years under the Shah: 'The people are ready to starve themselves before they give in. They've already gone so far in self-sacrifice. They are determined...