Word: widely
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...first year came Dallas, and later Richard Nixon, the man who was mesmerized by Connally. He became Secretary of the Treasury, but Nixon tantalized him with the vision of being his Vice President and finally moving into the Republican mainstream and the presidency. That is the kind of wide-screen thinking John Connally liked. Too much...
...defiance of the mullahs, the Shah ordered widespread land reforms, divesting the Shi'ite clergy of their vast holdings. The Shah scheduled a referendum on land reform and won his way by a wide margin. He decreed new privileges for women, including the right to vote and to attend institutions of higher learning. In June 1963 the mullahs, having failed to block the Shah's reforms, called their people into the streets. Demonstrations turned into riots, and the Shah sent in his troops. When the rioting stopped several days later, 200 people were dead, and the leader of the mullah...
...mills raise prices too much. Government officials are talking about administering the 1931 Davis-Bacon Act in a way that would hold construction wages down rather than pushing them up. The act commands that contractors pay the "prevailing" area wage on federally aided construction jobs, but gives the Administration wide latitude in defining what that prevailing wage...
...opened peacefully. Suspensions have dropped from 1,800 in 1976 to 275 last year. An intensive school-within-a-school system helps coach slow learners. But achievement scores are still way down, and critics complain that teacher are mainly "peacemakers and babysitters." Says Mary Ellen Smith of the City-wide Education Coalition, a probusing group: "The issue in Boston is no longer where kids go to school or the race o their classmates, but whether the public schools can offer a quality education.' That issue confronts not only Boston bu most of the nation's schools as well...
...words, written and spoken, in sermons and interviews, in dozens of articles and several books. The samples below reveal a man with profound conservative instincts but a light touch and a sense of humor. They also show that, despite a parochial career, John Paul I has wide cultural interests...