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Word: populars (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1970-1979
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...awareness of government financial strains and popular resistance to increased taxes has focused attention on the penetrating analysis of the state's budgetary dilemma contained in James O'Connor's The Fiscal Crisis of the State. O'Connor's 1973 book clearly analyzes the political dynamics of state budget growth and its antithesis, popular resistance to burgeoning tax costs...

Author: By Murray Gold, | Title: The Bottom Line | 9/30/1978 | See Source »

...before the end of the year. Zambian President Kenneth Kaunda and the other front-line Presidents, who have been working jointly for a Rhodesian settlement, still favor such a conference. So does Robert Mugabe, Nkomo's somewhat estranged partner in the Patriotic Front. Mugabe is not nearly as popular a political figure as Nkomo, but because he controls at least two-thirds of the guerrillas who are fighting inside Rhodesia, he must obviously be a party to any successful settlement...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: RHODESIA: The Only Way Left Is War | 9/25/1978 | See Source »

...fine Gallic disdain for international worker solidarity, another food kiosk sold sangria and the message: SPAIN IN THE COMMON MARKET. A BAD BLOW FOR FRANCE. Workers hawked dish towels underneath a sign pleading SAVE THE TEXTILE INDUSTRY OF THE VOSGES. Break-the-bottle games featured images of such popular villains as French President Valéry Giscard d'Estaing and West German Chancellor Helmut Schmidt, that advocate of dreaded social democracy...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: FRANCE: Pique-nic | 9/25/1978 | See Source »

...carbon dating processes on the charcoal, they found that these furnaces were between 1,500 and 2,000 years old, which proved that the sophisticated steelmaking techniques demonstrated by the contemporary Haya were indeed practiced by their ancestors. This discovery, the scientists conclude, "will help to change scholarly and popular ideas that technological sophistication developed in Europe but not in Africa...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Science: Africa's Ancient Steelmakers | 9/25/1978 | See Source »

...millinery buyer, who has stocked her hat bar with models ranging in price from $10 to $250. There are stylized versions of men's classic hats-snappy black derbies and soft, shallow fedoras-as well as girlish takeoffs on student beanies, sailor hats and soldier caps. Perhaps most popular of all is the cocktail hat. Feminine flourishes of velvet and silk, they are embroidered with sequins, strewn with rhinestones and bedecked with veils. Says Designer Hubert Givenchy: "They almost change a woman's behavior. When a woman wears a veil, she does not walk the same...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Living: Hats Off to Hats | 9/25/1978 | See Source »

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