Word: southern
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...Carter's sense of morality is no more Southern Baptist than the sun outside my window is Pasadenan. Universal laws deserve universal recognition...
Being Swedish born and now living in Hawaii, "the great melting pot of the Pacific," I find it unthinkable that Swedes would be racists by nature. The migrants from southern Europe and the Middle East who settled in Sweden are not resented because of their coloring. They are resented, even hated, for their way of living off welfare, for which the home-grown Swede is highly taxed. The people you refer to as irresponsible, riotous hooligans are merely young patriots who wish to keep Sweden Swedish, and for this they should not be rebuked. This is not being racist...
...Georgia bank's officials in a letter to the comptroller. Yet NBG officials also noted that their bank's earlier correspondent relationship with New York's Citibank had been unsatisfactory. According to one memo, "Manufacturers Hanover was much more responsive to the needs of Southern correspondents...
...back 860; but the South collected $1.14 and the West $1.20. One reason for the disparity is that many corporations have their headquarters in the Northeast and Midwest, from which they pay taxe based on their total national sales. But there are other factors, including the success of persuasive Southern and Western Congressmen in winning defense funds and pork-barrel projects for the folks back home...
...response to the "carpetbaggers," as some Californians dubbed Felker's forces, was to spruce up its graphics, sharpen its point of view and attract a bunch of bright new byliners. The defenders were helped by all the hoopla Felker fomented: in effect, it sold Southern Californians on the notion that they deserved a first-rate magazine. Since February 1976, L.A.'s circulation has soared from 90,000 to 128,566. Ad pages are up 50% (to 184 pages in August) over .he same period. L.A. ranks No. 3 (after Yachting and Trailer Life) in ad pages...