Word: travelling
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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Rosalynn (pronounced Rose-lun) likes campaigning on her own. She considers it "a waste of my time" to travel with her husband, observing that "it's a big country out there, with so many people to meet." Her days are surrealistic: she is up and away at dawn, and before she crawls into bed, many hours and several states later, she will have made six or eight speeches, given as many as 18 interviews and held three or four open press conferences...
...were based in Mozambique, and 2,500 or so in Zambia. The guerrillas are well armed ? mostly with Soviet bloc equipment ? and increasingly well trained. They have been so active even in the dry season, when army patrols are more effective, that civilian cars have had to travel in armed convoys on many roads. Road and rail links to South Africa are increasingly threatened. According to one widely accepted rubric about guerrilla warfare, a government needs 10 to 20 soldiers to defend itself against every guerrilla involved in an insurgency; white Rhodesia was in no position to bear...
...World Bank statistics, in industrialized countries the annual gross national product per capita is $4,550, while a billion of the world's poorest people in some areas of Southeast Asia and Africa have an annual income of little more than $100. In the era of space travel, electronics and cybernetics, 73% of the population of Africa, 46% of the Asians and 27% of the Latin Americans do not know the alphabet...
...players, when they go on the road. Even if you know nothing about baseball, you know plenty about the Yankees. It's like knowing about New York. You know the Yankees were rich, they won all the time, they hit home runs and married movie stars. If you travel around America these days you'll still find a jealous irrational hatred for New York City. The Yankees represented that part of New York the rest of the country revenges itself upon...
...decide. Howe has generally been considered a good congressman, and until his arrest was assured of reelection. But Utahns are getting used to dirty campaigns and political scandal. The state auditor recently resigned after pleading guilty to a charge of misconduct in office--he had taken $50 in extra travel expenses. The Republican nominee for Attorney General was just cleared of a charge of interfering with a civil suit by telling the plaintiff that she "didn't have a case" against the daughter of his longtime personal secretary. The cleared attorney won in the primaries despite another charge hanging over...