Word: proclaimed
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...Minn. (pop. 5,000), just outside the wilderness area, is normally a quiet, friendly town. But lately residents have been in a surly mood. SIERRA CLUB KISS MY AXE and NO SKIDOO NO CANOE, proclaim bumper stickers. A group of snowmobilers who whined into the forbidden area two winters ago and were promptly arrested are now local folk heroes dubbed the Ely Ten. The strife has also been marked by violence: car windows have been broken, tires slashed and 200-year-old trees felled to block access to the canoeing paradise...
...Administration remained officially silent on the results, perhaps taking a lesson from its inept handling of last winter's coal strike, when Carter went on television to proclaim the strike settled only to have the miners reject the pact in a ratification vote. The postal contract still has to be ratified by the membership of four separate unions in votes that begin next week. Having leaned on the Postal Service to hang tough in the negotiations, the White House was not eager to be seen gloating over the result. Said one Carter adviser: "We want to do anything...
...probably should have been anticipated that the practitioners of such a vital art form would finally do what they did last week and proclaim several days before Jimmy Carter left for Germany that the Bonn economic summit was, in effect, over-and it was a washout. From the White House, which last week issued a new official portrait that it hoped would look more "presidential" than last year's photo, came willing explanations for the predestined disappointmen-Congress refused to support Carter, the American economy chose the wrong season to inflate, the New York Times-CBS thoughtlessly polled...
...went to Atlanta, where he addressed an audience of some 8,500 from his own denomination, the Southern Baptist Convention. Many of them were delegates representing the denomination's more than 13 million members at a meeting to plan an ambitious campaign, which is backed by Carter, to proclaim the Christian message to everyone on earth by the year 2000. The President spoke quietly to his "brothers and sisters in Christ" about the role of faith in politics. Said he: "The great outward journey of our nation is based on an inward journey, the peace that issues from...
...Schultze chain-smokes cigarettes. When near them, Miller sits in tolerant agony. But at the nation's central bank, Miller is very much in charge. Around the Federal Reserve's board room, which long was redolent with the fumes from Arthur Burns' briar, new black signs proclaim THANK YOU FOR NOT SMOKING DURING MEETINGS OF THE BOARD, and ashtrays have been removed...