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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...accommodate Moscow; and reducing inflation, on which he is steering a conservative course that will be attacked by the liberals. Both battles promise to be bruising, and their outcome will largely determine whether the new beginning that Jimmy Carter made in 1978 will carry him to a second term...
Lunacy, a long-term resident of the capital, also attended the Civil Aeronautics Board. When Alfred Kahn was chairman (before he moved on to enforce Carter's anti-inflation policies), he ordered his staff to write in straightforward quasi-conventional prose. But by his own reckoning he achieved only "41.3% success." As evidence Kahn offered a departmental rejection slip: "The involved document, though clothed in diplomatic costume, is no more than a transmittal note and is, thus, of no decisional significance." "There was nothing I could do but cry," Kahn lamented. "I felt so lonely and futile...
...term displaced homemaker was invented by another Californian, Tish Sommers, 64, who was divorced at 57 and "discovered I was part of an invisible problem, one of the women who had fallen through the cracks, too young for social security, too old to be hired, not eligible for unemployment insurance because homemaking is not considered work." Also ineligible for welfare because she was not disabled and had no children under 18, caught in the double bind of age and sex discrimination, she saw that she belonged to both the middle class and the economically handicapped. With Laurie Shields...
...divorce laws that have been adopted by 47 states. "They are basically beneficial to younger women, but leave older women without bargaining leverage and without enough to live on." All these elements combine, she says, to produce "a large poverty group that was not with us for the long term before...
...doing, the Times of India editorialized last week, she would gain "concrete evidence that when it comes to dealing with political opponents, Janata is no better than she." Then she could argue that her stay in the slam mer had purged her of guilt for abuses during her term as India's one-woman ruler...