Word: sentimentalized
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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However, in spite of the popular sentiment that favors hoarding America's wealth for Americans, it is almost certain that there will be many more of these unauthorized human beings entering the United States in the coming years. Economic conditions in Mexico are so wretched that the United States looks like the promised land in comparison. The vast majority of Mexico's 63 million people earn less than $20 a month; devaluation of the peso has brought on 30 per cent inflation and "effectively halved the incomes of those fortunate enough to hold jobs," according to The El Paso Times...
...first year, she recalls, she was always the dissenting vote. But gradually local sentiment has swung...
Hunt echoed this sentiment. "The caliber in eastern cross-country has improved greatly and I expect it will continue, but my girls are tough, they will be right up there...
...gubernatorial elections in Virginia and New Jersey are the first statewide tests of Democratic strength since Jimmy Carter moved to Washington. That is why Jody Powell calls them "the only ball games in town." The outcome will almost certainly depend more on local personalities and issues than on voter sentiment about the President's performance, but Carter campaigned actively for the Democrats in both races, so the White House has good reason to watch the returns closely?and apprehensively. Reports from the two battlegrounds...
...standard of living, most Puerto Ricans-despite currently high unemployment-seem to be content with their ties to the mainland; at a conference of island editors and publishers in Dorado last week, Puerto Rico's Governor Carlos Romero Barceló felt confident enough about bedrock pro-U.S. sentiment among Puerto Ricans to call for statehood. Yet the island's core of ardent independentistas insists on dismissing pro-American opinion. It reflects, José maintains, nothing but political "brainwashing...