Word: terming
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...chance that Carter might be defeated after achieving nomination is statistically somewhat greater. Seven elected Presidents who sought a second term and were nominated by their party were then defeated at the polls beginning with John Adams in 1800 and running through Herbert Hoover...
...Kenya the President must be a member of parliament, and is elected by that body for a five-year term...
...phase of the struggle is to remove the British [from Ulster] and to create conditions where the Irish people, in a united Ireland, can establish social democracy with complete control over their own destiny. The movement wants to see the creation of a decentralized socialist state. Obviously, even the term united Ireland means that the government that has been set up in the Republic must come down. The working-class majority from Ulster-Protestants and Catholics-don't simply want to be absorbed into a decadent state. The Republic has got severe economic problems: high unemployment...
...often do not recall either the treatment or any events immediately before it. But critics of ECT, even as it is practiced today, say that it can also cause permanent brain damage, including a loss of memory of events in the more distant past. Still, any evidence of long-term memory loss is conflicting and anecdotal. For example, Ernest Hemingway was convinced that ECT ruined his writing career by wiping out his store of experiences. Marilyn Rice, a former Government economist, claims the treatments obliterated her expertise and forced her early retirement...
...deal on a Sunrise, Fla., condo not far from Fort Lauderdale: "I can't worry about interest rates now. Where am I going to go? I don't want to live in a rental any more, with its $50-a-month increase every year." Over the long term, it seems that demand-and prices-for condos and co-ops will be stronger than for housing in general...