Word: tides
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...Jacob K. Javits (R-N.Y.), a three-term veteran, bucked a statewide Democratic tide by easily defeating former U.S. Attorney General Ramsey Clark. Javits's margin, however, was considerably smaller than in his victory six years ago over now New York City Council President Paul O'Dwyer...
...campaign has hardly stirred the cornstalks, but 1974 still may be a turning point for Midwestern politics. Because of population shifts and spreading industrialization, there has been a Democratic tide here since the mid-1960s. Now Watergate and the faltering economy have given Midwestern Democrats expectations of winning upwards of 15 House seats and five in the Senate, as well as significant inroads in state elections. The gains may signal the Midwest's switch from being a Republican stronghold to a two-party region, if not a happy hunting ground for Democrats...
...office tried to insure that students who needed money would receive cash advances to tide them over until the term bills were mailed, Gibson said...
...study of corporate farming used by Peter J. Ferrara on this page last week, which supposedly shows the negligible importance of corporate farming, should not be taken seriously. The study was set up hastily by the Department of Agriculture to stem the tide of protests against corporate farming and to underestimate the real figures. I happened to meet one of the authors of this study and he knew quite well that his figures were unreliable. A counterstudy made by Professor Rodefeld in one state showed that the figures of U.S.D.A. were underestimated at least by one half...
...TIME article on new faces in the 1974 political tide points to more than a mere changing of the guard between generations or an attempt to recapture our national innocence. It is clear that voters are tired of the traditional practitioners of "politics as usual." What is not yet fully perceived, however, is the need for new solutions to the problems of dwindling resources and deteriorating environment that will become more acute in the 1970s...