Word: reflecting
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...have jobs is rising strongly, and most lenders will now make 48-month loans to car buyers, v. 36 months formerly; that lowers monthly payments. GM and Ford are also scheduling record spending on new plant and equipment this year. Thus the auto industry seems likely to continue to reflect the nation's economic recovery-and to give that revival a powerful push...
Carter has repeatedly stressed his determination to look for women and minorities to fill sub-cabinet positions, especially because his cabinet choices don't precisely reflect his promise to give those groups more input into government policy...
...Liquor. The social life of the White House will reflect the Carters' purposefulness. Rosalynn expects that this President will follow the example he set as Governor. "He's never been one that sat around or danced, except a dance or two. He comes down, speaks to everybody, eats dinner, then says goodnight. By 9:30 he was upstairs working." Nor will liquor be served in the Carter White House. "I've been doing a lot of reading about the White House," she says, a shade defensively. "It was a tradition to serve only wine until recently...
Some of the recent increase in bellicosity on both sides may reflect calculated attempts by both Chile's Pinochet and Peruvian President Francisco Morales Bermudez to take their countrymen's minds off the soaring inflation and unemployment that plague both nations. Yet the Peruvians' century-old bitter hatred toward their southern neighbors is real and runs deep. To this day, for example, misbehaving Peruvian children are disciplined with the threat: "You'll be given to the Chileans." The anti-Chilean mood has intensified with the approach of the centenary...
...also warns that indices charting the availability of women and minority candidates for employment are based on 1970 census information. "Since 1970 increasing proportions of women and minority group persons have prepared for professional and managerial careers so that 1970 census information may not now adequately reflect present ratios of availability," the report states...