Word: tides
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...popular press. Side by side with its "Is America Turning Right?" cover story several weeks ago, Newsweek magazine ran a photographic "who's who" that resembled nothing if not a mug-shot line-up of the intellectual ringleaders of this drive to turn back the progressive, egalitarian tide. "There's no new right," Georgia State Sen. Julian Bond is quoted as saying directly beneath this assemblage of snap-shots. "There's a new left of unbelievably queasy liberals...
...some drop in living standards will have to occur if the new economic policy is to work. One of its aims is to dry up excessive buying power in order to help stem the tide of imports. The cost of many foreign goods is expected to jump by a prohibitive 45% or more. On the less painful side, the government hopes its measures will stimulate local industry to manufacture previously imported goods, find new markets for exports and attract overseas investment. The Begin regime is also quietly counting on another blessing from a reduced balance of payments deficit: Israel could...
Numerous players deserve citation, including Mike Smith and Brian O'Connor, whose aggressive midfield play helped to turn the tide in Harvard's favor. Then there are seniors Harold Martin and Fred Harold, who finished their Harvard careers in style. Martin tallied the deciding goals of the contest and Herold ended his three-year reign in the Crimson nets with an 81-minute shutout performance...
...investigative Boston Finance Commission pilloried him last spring over his no-show staff worker, Kerrigan also exceeded the city's level of tolerance. Palladino is the easiest case to explain. She first rode the anti-busing wave into office in 1975 and is now stranded in the low tide of voter disgust...
...independent, and to many Africans, it was the dawn of a new era. The legislative and executive councils were replaced by parliaments. Expect for southern African and some few countries, most of the leaders were African. Did the African independence mean the death of colonialism and imperialism? The rushing tide of colonialism and imperialism that overflooded the African soil brought immense devastation to the continent and the people. Men and women, young and old were swept away by the colonial flood. Some drowned and those Africans who survived the flood have still not recovered from the trauma. Sacred places were...