Word: southern
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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Hispanic Americans will indeed soon be the "biggest minority" precisely be cause the southern border of our country has ceased to mean anything whatsoever. We are busily solving Mexico's problems...
That flicker of a grin, so often at odds with the import of his words, had disappeared. That Southern lilt, so often muffling the ends of sentences, was almost gone. As President Carter appeared on prime-time television last week to proclaim and explain the long-awaited Stage II of his campaign to slow the inflation that has reached an annual rate of 10%, his manner and delivery befitted the solemnity of his subject. Seated at his Oval Office desk and reading from a prompter, the President vowed to try "to arouse our nation to join me" in the long...
Luther Ragin Jr, '76, a student at the Kennedy and Law Schools, said other organizations, such as the Southern Africa Solidarity Committee, exist to deal with the broader issues. He said a "multiplicity of committees and overlapping structures" would diffuse and contain the energy created by this issue...
...about the economy, noting that a joint study by their economists forecasts that it will show real growth next year of about 3%-not great but far above recession levels. The business leaders were also encouraged by the voter uprising against Government spending. Said Benjamin Biaggini, chairman of the Southern Pacific Co.: "Proposition 13 is the greatest thing since ice cream." Du Pont Chairman Irving Shapiro exulted that "the public is again captain of the ship. For the first time we're in a posture to get a good economic policy because the public is demanding...
Four Harvard groups are among those co-sponsoring the demonstration. They are the Southern Africa Solidarity Committee (SASC), the Democratic Socialist Organizing Committee (DSOC), the Harvard Lawyer's Guild and the Friends of the United Farm Workers...