Word: shared
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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Many are also beginning to take the eminently practical step of buying fuel-efficient small cars. Detroit had expected small cars to account for about 47% of all sales of U.S.-made autos this year. The actual share is now 54%. Sales of the GM Chevette and Ford Mustang in March and April ran 77% to 79% ahead of last year. Imports, mostly small and gas thrifty, are taking more than 22% of all sales, a record share. At the same time, sales of gas guzzlers are off so sharply that totals for U.S.-made cars in April...
...issue of dealing with Congress in the future, because it's in everybody's interest for the members of Congress to understand what we're trying to do and what our problems are. It's hard for them to understand if we can't share everything with them...
Business interests account for a huge share of this activity and their tools are among the most sophisticated. The Chamber of Commerce, the National Association of Manufacturers and the Business Roundtable (made up of the chief executive officers of nearly 200 Fortune 500 corporations) are among the most influential of the business lobbies. In addition, more than 500 corporations maintain lobbying staffs in Washington. These corporations can deduct, as business expenses on their tax returns, the costs of direct lobbying legislators. In addition, trade associations can finance their lobbying activities through the tax deductible dues of member businesses. Individual citizens...
...step in the right direction, a moral act. It led to an end of the most virulent segregation, and paved the way for other civil rights decisions. When Nixon was first attacked for Watergate, who expected him to fall to such ignominy? Who expected Ian Smith to share anything with blacks? All change is slow. Revolutions begin with baby steps...
...many other black intellectuals do not share that enthusiasm. Some insist she has played into the hands of the white Establishment, which, according to Howard University Psychologist Harriette McAdoo, is all too "eager to believe there is a schism between black men and black women." Many regard her account of the great biracial crusade of the 1960s as a historical distortion, and as Sociologist Robert Staples of the University of California at San Francisco insists, "a slur on everything that went on in the movement and everyone who took part." Others acknowledge that there are indeed tensions between black...