Word: widens
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...indeed never have had a better opportunity to get a piece of the action, but poverty, despair, hopelessness still haunt the nation's ghettos; all too many black Americans remain preoccupied with sheer survival. In fact, the gap between white and black family income overall continues to widen, despite remarkable gains by educated urban black families in the North and West. "How can people be uptight about the war and things like that when they have to worry about heat and hot water?" asks New York Congressman Charles Rangel...
Amid rising speculation that the Nixon administration intends to widen the war in Southeast Asia, an Indochina Teach-In will be held in Sanders Theater at 8 p. m. tonight...
...especially noticeable when compared with the lusty prosperity of the Common Market. The gap will widen if the European Economic Community is enlarged to include Britain, Denmark, Ireland and Norway. It will have a population of 250 million, somewhat larger than either the U.S. or the Soviet Union. Its gross national product will be an estimated $650 billion v. $932 billion for the U.S. and as much as $600 billion for Russia. The Market will be the world's largest steel producer, and it will outstrip even the U.S. in auto production...
...Nixon administration seems willing to do many things that widen the war," Everett Mendelsohn, professor of the History of Science, said. "This is of a piece to their invasion of Cambodia...
...returned to power in 1951 after six years of Labor rule. The new budget eliminates funds for the nationalization of the ports, halts grants for industry and the building of tourist hotels and will begin phasing out aid for London commuter rail lines. "Our object," explained Barber, "is to widen the area within which industry rather than government will take decisions...