Word: populars
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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Cleveland had to decide whether or not to retain the mayor with the face of a clever schoolboy and the bite of a barracuda. The recall election was forced by Kucinich's enemies, who issued their challenge after he had fired popular Police Chief Richard Hongisto. Battling for his job, Kucinich claimed he was being hounded by "the bosses" because he fought for "the people." He won-barely. With fewer than half of the voters going to the polls, the mayor's strongholds among the white working-class ethnics, carried the day by 236 votes...
...Prague Spring, an unprecedented and exhilarating period of cultural and political freedom that had been orchestrated by the Czechoslovak Communist Party of Alexander Dubček. Under Dubček, censorship had been lifted, police files aired and Communist Party officials-for the first time ever-subjected to open, popular criticism. Then, thanks to the Kremlin, the country was yanked back into the grim, gray twilight of East bloc conformity it had known since...
...that most single-income families cannot, but they still avoid most long-term financial obligations. Saving, even for the day when pregnancy will temporarily eliminate one income, is not common. When the young two-income families do salt funds away, it is in bonds or real estate -the one popular long-term investment -rather than stocks, since they saw their parents hurt by inflation and market plunges. Compared with young couples ten or 20 years ago, they spend more and plan less for the future, figuring that something (Medicare, Social Security or private pensions) will take care of that distant...
...this were a political platform, any prudent banker would deny a loan to finance Abboud's campaign. Yet he speaks some hard truths. Unless the geometric growth of some popular and politically "uncontrollable" programs is controlled-Abboud mentions Social Security and veterans benefits-then much deeper deficits lie ahead. Until the Government eases some regulations, managers will spend capital to meet those rules instead of to create jobs. Buying up dollars will not permanently lift America's currency but at least will give the U.S. time to ease the trade and budget deficits that are dragging the dollar...
...homosexual acts was no greater than in the young male population at large. But many scholars fell into Platonic love affairs with each other that haunted them all their lives. A pattern of boy worship emerged in the schools and filtered into the British society at large. The popular poetry of the Rev. E.E. Bradford is crammed with hilariously unconscious sexuality...