Word: widespread
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...vote to 48.1%. That represented an impressive 8.1% increase over its 1966 snowing, but was not quite enough. The closeness of the vote was a rebuke to Gorton, and as the week ended, several leading party members announced their refusal to serve under the P.M. There was widespread speculation that Gorton...
...widespread is dissent in the Soviet Union? Perhaps the only people who know are officials of the KGB (secret police), whose job is to crush it. Only occasionally does an open act of defiance occur, such as last year's small protest in Red Square against the invasion of Czechoslovakia. Last week news of an especially intriguing act of dissidence came to light...
...today, homosexuality has scarcely reached the proportions of a symptom of widespread decadence (though visitors sometimes wonder as they observe the lounging male whores on New York's Third Avenue or encounter male couples embracing effusively in public parks). Still, the acceptance or rejection of homosexuality does raise questions about the moral values of the society: its hedonism, its concern with individual "identity." The current conceptions of what causes homosexuality also pose a fundamental challenge to traditional ideas about the proper role to be played by all men and women. In recent years, Americans have learned that a man need...
...unlikely to show much patience with delays in desegregation; in recent years, it has repeatedly declared that the time for "deliberate speed" is over. Even so, the justices confront a hard choice. They may conclude that a desegregation decision in the middle of a school year would produce widespread disorder in Mississippi-and would risk a collision between the Court and the Nixon Administration...
Last week the Food and Drug Administration condemned cyclamates as possibly dangerous to health and effectively banned their widespread use in the U.S. Robert Finch, Secretary of Health, Education and Welfare, ordered that all foods and drinks containing the artificial sweetener be removed from grocers' shelves and soft-drink vending channels no later than Feb. 1. In the case of products containing the largest proportions of cyclamates, the deadline is Jan. 1. The effects of this abrupt order on food and drink manufacturing, processing, distribution and marketing will be enormous (see BUSINESS...