Word: primed
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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Something is obviously wrong here. "The chaos of the system and incredible length of the campaign may well be prime reasons for voter disenchantment," Witcover concludes...
However, he still believes in the essential soundness of the system. The success of Jimmy Carter, who lacked fame, money and established political support at the outset of the campaign, proves this point, Witcover argues. "If a prime purpose of the political system is to give all contenders an equal chance to achieve leadership, then the system worked without question in 1976," he writes...
...thriller its most potent dose of modern disillusionment. As a Roman Catholic convert with an unblinking eye for guilt and evil, he gave the bulky 19th century Russian soul opera a fresh English tailoring. The trials of a "whisky priest" in The Power and the Glory are, perhaps, the prime example of such styling...
India's reputation as "the world's largest democracy" perished abruptly on June 26, 1975, when Prime Minister Indira Gandhi, the imperious daughter of Jawaharlal Nehru, imposed a "state of emergency," curtailed civil liberties and imprisoned tens of thousands of people, including hundreds of her political opponents. But if Indian democracy had been destroyed in a single night, it was miraculously reborn only 21 months later when Mrs. Gandhi and her Congress Party were overwhelmingly defeated at the polls...
...Mehta has observed, "anything would be better than the dictatorship of the emergency," it does not follow that India's problems have been solved with the election of Morarji Desai as Prime Minister. Mrs. Gandhi's family-planning program was often harshly applied. But the sterilizations (8 million in her last year of power) were a human effort to deal with crushing statistics: India's population (now over 620 million) will reach 1 billion by the year 2000. During Desai's first nine months in office, on the other hand, there were only 636,000 sterilizations...