Word: signs
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...national future. Still, it's far from certain that this generation of leaders, or perhaps the next, will lead the Soviet police state into social democracy. They are cynical, philistine power brokers whose world is measured in terms of economic statistics and Communist Party control. There is no sign of the oft-predicted clash between the party bureaucrats and the industrial and scientific technocrats. Although it is rotten at the edges-as provincial political scandals reveal-the party network retains a tenacious monopoly of authority...
...fruitless to argue specifies did black so and so get traded for white so and so--but in a general sense the Red Sox record in race relations is somewhat less honorable than that of the NAACP. Boston was the last franchise in the major leagues to sign a black player--passing up Jackie Robinson and Willie Mays to do so. When they finally did take one on, it was a woefully inadequate infielder named Pumpsie Green, who quickly became a laughingstock. Since then, no black players have made history with the team. Those who promised to-Reggie Smith. George...
...with White, Stewart, Powell and Blackmun now all occasional members of the searching middle, the court is increasingly unpredictable. "It can make for some very sloppy law," says Stanford Constitutional Expert Gerald Gunther. "But in the long run I think it is a healthy sign, because it reflects the fact that some judges are engaged in a serious effort to rethink difficult problems. You need a breaking up of rigid lines before you can come up with a coherent set of rules for new questions...
...caucus members were really impressed by the presidential candidates appearances at their national convention at the Boston Sheraton the last weekend in June. Some see it as a sign that the two-year-old caucus is beginning to be recognized by the political status quo. They figure that the candidates must think the caucus has some political punch if they took the trouble to show up at the convention. Others wonder whether the speeches were just a lot of empty words and political manipulation...
Last week the Commerce Department reported the surest sign yet that a recovery is taking hold. The economy's index of leading indicators, which had fallen for eleven straight months until March, rose in May for the third consecutive month. This was the first three-month rise since 1972 in those indicators, which usually move ahead of the overall economy and fore tell its future course. Among the sensitive leaders that were up in May were new orders for consumer goods, contracts for plant and equipment, building permits, the size of the money supply and common stock prices...