Word: successful
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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Savoring his success, the President campaigns for Democratic votes...
Ultimately, Carter's success will rest on how well he deals with the issue that most distresses people: inflation. "The pocket nerve is throbbing all the time because of inflation," says Pollster Mervin Field. "Inflation is bugging the public more than anything." Former President Ford is pounding away on this issue. Ford recalls that when he left office, the inflation rate stood at 4.8%. "In 20 months under the Carter Administration, we're back to unacceptable inflation." If inflation is not brought under control, many of Carter's other accomplishments could be quickly-if unfairly-forgotten...
...some Communist countries the effort has been brutally successful. Not in Poland. Of the country's 35 million people, 33 million are Roman Catholics, most of them still churchgoers-including, on the sly, a number of party officials. A popular joke tells of a district Communist chief reporting to higher-ups that his drive to instill Communism is a big success. "After all," he boasts, "only 85% of the people in the district attend church regularly...
...battle, he used his intellectual powers to persuade both disaffected liberal Catholics and Marxists to take the church seriously. The new Pope, says a Czech Jesuit in exile, has been "more dangerous for Communist countries than Cardinal Wyszynski, because he combats Marxism also on theoretical grounds, and with such success that they have been hard put to refute his arguments...
These representatives can be called the purists, for they are faithful to the assembly's designers, who saw the chief problem of student government as a lack of adequate representation. The purists could well hold the key to the assembly's success. Many of the purists are former convention delegates, including Carl Rosen '80, chairman of the assembly's committee on intra-and extra-University affairs, and Michael A. Calabrese '79, chairman of the committee on college life. The purists want the assembly to conduct referenda, hold "town meetings" in the Houses, and become clear about student sentiment before acting...