Word: poore
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...kind of poor man's cocaine, isobutyl nitrite is known to users as a "popper" because its effects are similar to those of its restricted chemical cousin, amyl nitrite. Poppers have become the newest cheap kick for increasing numbers of people: manufacturers estimate that 5 million Americans regularly inhale the chemical, both on the dance floor and later in bed. Some people use it as a quick upper during the day. "I carry a bottle of it with me all the time," says Ron Braun, 28, a California carpenter. "If I'm bored and want a rush...
White House approval of Schmidt's boa is not necessarily a harbinger of sweetness and light at Bonn. The personal relationship between Schmidt and Carter has been poor and has only recently begun to improve, and the West German offer to increase growth if the U.S. moves to solve its deficit problems will probably not be enough to satisfy Washington. The President, though, will have an unexpected new argument to present to the Chancellor. The biggest source of the U.S. trade deficit is not oil but industrial imports from West Germany and Japan (see chart). Department of Commerce figures...
...many observers expected them to reverse the trend set by the liberal Warren Court in the 1950s and '60s. Judicially activist, the Warren Court had frequently extended constitutional guarantees of free speech, equal protection and due process to safeguard individual rights, which usually meant those of the poor, minorities and criminal defendants. With the arrival of the Nixon appointees, the court was less concerned with the rights of the poor, and its decisions became more conservative. Deferential to law-and-order needs, the court was usually thought of as reluctant to tackle large issues, preferring to leave more decision...
...healthy economy cannot tolerate that pace. It wipes away most wage and salary gains, lowers standards of living and sets poor, middle class and rich to snarling at one another. It also weakens the dollar overseas: foreign moneymen rush to dump greenbacks out of fear that inflation will steadily erode their value. Last week the dollar slipped to a record low of 201 Japanese yen, down almost 17% just since January. The dollar's slide, in turn, makes U.S. inflation worse because it raises the prices that Americans pay for imported goods...
What this "New Nixon" apparently wants, and what a particularly quick-moving crew of revisionist historians seems determined to give him, is a place in the history books considerably less corroded than the soiled niche he now holds. And what he is relying on are the exceptionally poor memories of the American people...