Word: spites
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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Within these constraints, some artists--usually in folk or in blues--have enjoyed considerable success in spite of the prettiness of their music or a special quality to their lyrics. A musician named John Simon has produced albums for some of the best, including Simon and Garfunkel, Seals and Crofts, Gordon Lightfoot, and The Band Ironically his own first record John Simon's Album, cut in 1970, remains virtually unknown. By almost any other standard its arrangements, musicianship, variety in tone, and emotional sophistication made it a remarkable debut...
...said that she had been tempted to take on the job of president "not in spite of but because of the unique nature of our present relationship with Harvard...
...Western technology and consumer goods have not been matched by American or European investment. As a result, Yugoslavia is becoming more dependent on Soviet capital. Eight hundred thousand Yugoslavs have sought jobs in Western Europe, and many virtually bankrupt Yugoslav companies are unable to meet their payrolls. In spite of displays of consumer goods in stores, soaring inflation has put them increasingly out of reach for ordinary workers...
...depends to a certain extent on personality. Domenici is a breathless, ebullient crowd pleaser, while strong, low-key Jack Daniels, in contrast, is a diffident public speaker who prefers to press the flesh with individual voters in a kind of Western one-on-one campaign. Domenici is favored, in spite of a better than 2-1 Democratic registration...
Rockefeller, backed by a superb organization, is campaigning for more jobs and better roads and against strip mining; he depicts former six-term Congressman Moore as an anti-conservation advocate of the surface mining that more and more West Virginians fear. Still, in spite of eight years' residence, Rockefeller frequently has to defend himself against charges that he is a rich carpetbagger using penurious West Virginia as a step toward national office. Sometimes he refutes the accusation too effusively, as when he scoops up a handful of dirt and croons, "I love the feel of it. I love...