Word: populars
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...this was directed against a democratically-elected president whose government, despite the U.S.-sponsored economic destabilization, managed to increase its popular vote plurality from 36 per cent in 1970 to 43 per cent in 1973, six months before the coup. So much for democracy...
Paul A. Samuelson's "Economics," the bible for Economics 10, the College's most popular course, will be replaced this year by a new economics textbook, the professor of the course said yesterday...
...credit" as a result of a recent Roper Organization survey that shows that given a choice between expanded grant and loan programs and tuition tax credits, people prefered the expanded programs. A New York Times-CBS poll and a Gallup poll show, however, that the tax credit is more popular than expanded grants programs...
...Muslims, who have grown increasingly restive as the Shah has pursued a rigorous modernization campaign for his ancient country. The motive power of the mullahs (religious leaders) is Islamic puritanism, but in their discontent they have been encouraged by both the Soviet Union and George Habash's radical Popular Front for the Liberation of Palestine...
...foundation, with an annual budget of about $400,000, conducts a hundred or more weekend workshops round the country for recreation specialists, educators and health care professionals; many of them are paid by their employers to learn the new nonwinning ways. Explains O'Connell: "The games are especially popular in the Midwest, where people still have lots of community picnics and family days. They're a lot more fun than spitting watermelon seeds at each other...