Word: twinning
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...desperate enough to paraphrase President Franklin D. Roosevelt's great rallying cry that the only thing we have to fear is fear itself." He once more asked Congress to pass the economic program he proposed on Oct. 8, asserting it was sufficient for now to cope with the twin demons of inflation and recession...
...nation's statehouses reflected a disaster for the Republicans. The Democrats scored a net gain of at least four governorships, raising their total to 36,* their highest tally since 1936. In their sweep, the Democrats captured eight of the nation's ten most populous states, including the twin coastal bastions of New York and California, and came close to winning Ohio and Michigan. Next year 73% of all Americans will have Democrats as their Governors...
Shaffer took time deciding to make the theater his career. Born in 1926, he and his twin Anthony (who wrote Sleuth) grew up in Liverpool. Their father, an Orthodox Jew, was a successful real estate broker. In 1944, both sons were conscripted to work in the mines. Under the Bevin plan, depleted mines were beefed up by youngsters chosen by ballot. "It was wicked work," recalls Shaffer. Later he went to Cambridge, where he toyed with the idea of writing, and then he and Anthony teamed up to turn out three detective novels, long since out of print. Peter drifted...
...Register's editor and publisher, he says, by Owner Frawley. Richard Betts, Frawley's assistant, insists Francis was not fired. Betts says that Frawley decided to move the Register from Huntington, Ind., to Los Angeles, the home of Frawley's fluffy, quasi-Catholic weekly Twin Circle, to combine operations and save money. More basically, Frawley probably wanted closer editorial control in order to publicize his own ideas. Francis concedes that he did not want to go to L.A. but says that he was not invited...
...Miami-Fort Lauderdale area alone. Demand for rental housing is at an alltime high, but construction has virtually ceased. Many cities are packed with vast, vacant building sites like the one cleared two years ago in the Chicago suburb of Oak Park for its still-unbuilt 39-story "Twin Oaks" residential complex. Some 900 construction firms went bankrupt from January through July. Many of them were small local outfits, but the failures also include a dozen publicly held firms that do business on a national scale...