Word: followings
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Dates: during 1980-1980
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...million TV homes in the U.S., vs. only 10 million in 1950. By age 18, the average American has spent an estimated 15,000 hours in front of the set, far more time than in school. Whatever the figures, teachers agree, television is a hard act to follow...
...seasoned Washington observer: "The very people Carter needs most, blue-collar people in the industrial states, are going to be the people worst hurt." Republicans agree, even though the Carter policies in question are the standard G.O.P. nostrums of curbing Government spending and encouraging the Federal Reserve to follow a tight-money policy. Says Republican National Committee Chairman William Brock: "Carter is consciously using human beings as cannon fodder in his war against inflation. We're going to take his hide off on that...
...Coleman, 36, a longtime civil rights activist in Fort Wayne. Within hours, however, police discarded that theory and pursued another: that the would-be killer was, as Gibson put it, "an individual, possibly involved alone-an isolated-type incident." In other words, police now felt that the case might follow the same pattern as the shootings of King, the Kennedy brothers and George Wallace-a killer stalking his victim to avenge imagined grievances...
...oppose a return to draft registration, and the functioning draft that would inevitably follow, because the motivation behind it is purely political. Neither American military needs nor the nation's security requires this step; only Jimmy Carter's future seems to demand it. The war 19-and 20-year-olds might die in would be to defend America's inability to secure its energy independence, not our national interests at all, as the Carter Doctrine wildly states. We urge students to fight the reinstitution of draft registration, and if--as is likely--Congress approves the bill and Carter signs...
...Congress to revive draft registration. Six months later, the president's call for registration seems to have posed many more dilemmas than it may solve. If congress this week approves the president's plan to begin registering 19- and 20-year-old men for the draft, the protests which follow that action may only be the start of the government's problems...