Word: suffering
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...carrying 140 million passengers and logging 2.25 billion air miles with only two fatal mishaps. When the first major wide-bodied aircraft accident did occur, near Paris in 1974, it was a Turkish Air Lines DC-10 that carried 346 people to their deaths. The 747 seemed destined to suffer mainly in movie fancy-in a mid-air collision in Airport 75, in a crash at sea in Airport...
While Mrs. Gandhi will not suffer under the new regime, many of her policies will. At his first press conference, the new Prime Minister announced that he would try to repeal her constitutional amendments restricting civil liberties and the powers of the courts. He also said his priority in domestic policy would be to "remove poverty" and end unemployment, a task he concedes might take a long time. Like other Janata leaders he is preoccupied with Mahatma Gandhi's ideal of local development, and will probably stress agriculture and village industry rather than big business and heavy industry...
...example in its own actions. You see, to make people fearless is more a function of government than of anything else, because people are afraid of government more than any other agency. And you have to set them at rest that no honest man will ever have to suffer under that government. On the contrary, honest men will be supported and respected. Then you will create more honest...
...this welter of conflicting interests-industrial, regional, ideological-Jimmy Carter and Jim Schlesinger must seek to fashion a national consensus. The stage is set for a full-scale political drama, most likely a cliffhanger. As a leading character in that drama, Schlesinger, for all his unwillingness to suffer those he considers fools, should have a reassuring effect. As he puffs on his briar and voices dispassionate opinions about the looming crisis, he exudes the old-fashioned values of patriotism and self-reliance. The energy crisis is making that turn of mind much needed for Americans of today-and tomorrow...
...distance running may suffer from the same lack of depth, but here again McCurdy has a solid core of former cross-country runners to build around. The big guns here should be freshmen Tad McNulty and Reed Eichner, who have been running strong in practices all along...