Word: realignment
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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Usually calm, orderly and above all non-descript, Canadian politics have suddenly been thrust into a volatile pre-election period that promises to realign Canada's traditional political balance. Faced with increasingly severe economic and political challenges, Canadian labor is beginning to forge tighter cooperative links with its old political ally, the New Democratic Party (NDP), as it prepares to deal with the increasing polarization of Canadian politics. But despite the severity of Canada's problems, the labor-NDP alliance is itself weak and encumbered with many difficulties...
...York City. His right-wing approach to international affairs is vividly reflected in his selection of Dean Rusk as his foreign policy advisor. The central theme of Carter's campaign has been the need to trim federal bureaucracy, specifically welfare bureaucracy; such language masks a more fundamental desire to realign governmental priorities and to eliminate the social welfare programs of the 60's. The brunt of this new austerity will of course be borne by poor and working people. "I think you will find," Carter's press secretary wrote in 1972, "that Senator Jackson, Governor Wallace and [Carter...
Carrying a carload of pro-Moscow propaganda, the driver was apparently on his way to a clandestine meeting of an underground group that had been plotting to overthrow Tito and realign Yugoslavia more closely with the Soviet Union. Within weeks, 32 conspirators -most of them former secret-police agents and hard-line Communist war veterans-were arrested and convicted...
...Very few people have a clear idea of how the debt will figure in their plans," Gibson said. He said he would like to realign the system so students do not bear the brunt of their obligations the first year out of school, when other financial pressures are greatest...
When the world's monetary powers agreed to realign their currencies in return for an end to the U.S. import surcharge, one important country was missing from the revaluing ranks. Canada, the largest U.S. trading partner, had already allowed its dollar to float to higher levels more than a year earlier. Ottawa officials hope that their dollar will float down again so that Canadian exports will be cheaper in the U.S., and the Nixon Administration so far has not pressed Canada to fix a formal rate for its dollar...