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Word: populars (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1970-1979
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...find any increasing toxity," Wacker says, adding that the pill has now been used safely for the past 15 to 16 years. Bisbee advises: "What we say is that there is no connection between the pill and cancer." As for the diaphragm, Harvard's other most popular method, Wacker says, when used properly it is "good" but that "you still run the risk of a .5 per cent chance of getting pregnant...

Author: By James Cramer, | Title: The Best Contraceptive Is the Word 'No' | 3/10/1976 | See Source »

...understand Hailey, who is arguably the most popular writer of fiction in America today, it is best to shed any ideas of him as an artist who is making a creative progression from work to work. Rather, he is a writer who has hit upon a formula that has several great advantages and can be infinitely repeated. (I'm pulling for him to write his next opus about the government bureaucracy, to be entitled State, but I can also see universities, law firms, daily newspapers, the motion picture industry and shipping companies as fertile territory...

Author: By Nick Lemann, | Title: The Great American Novelist | 3/10/1976 | See Source »

Despite United States, Zairois and South African aid however, Unita and FNLA soon folded. The Unita/FNLA coalition never had the popular support needed to win; that is why they had to ask for aid in the first place. And they quickly lost the support they had as they massacred and looted their way through Angola. For example, London Times reporters saw mass graves of MPLA supporters in Luanda; in a Unita prison which once held 140 MPLA cadres, only seven were alive when the MPLA took over...

Author: By Neva L. Seidman, | Title: Slipping the U.S.-South Africa Noose | 3/9/1976 | See Source »

...unbalanced federal budgets and for more spending on defense and tougher bargaining with the Soviets. Even his ill-considered proposal to transfer many federal social-welfare programs to state and local governments-he estimated the shift would cut the federal budget by $90 billion-was popular with many voters...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: The Nation: How Ford Won and Reagan Lost | 3/8/1976 | See Source »

...century, German and Germanic theologians have dominated Protestant thought. In the current generation, the two acknowledged theological stars are Tübingen's Jürgen Moltmann and Munich's Wolfhart Pannenberg. Moltmann, of Theology of Hope fame, has been the better known and the more popular, especially among Protestant social reformers. Pannenberg is still largely unknown outside the tight little world of religious scholars. But, says John Cobb of California's School of Theology at Claremont, he "is fairly widely recognized to have published more substantive work in theology in the past decade" than any other...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Religion: Guilty of Reason | 3/8/1976 | See Source »

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