Word: instead
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Dates: during 1980-1980
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...They said they got permission, and when the foremen swore they didn't, they didn't want to go to arbitration, because the facts were stacked against them," Powers says. "Instead, the union changed its position in mid-stream, saying they didn't need permission to attend the meetings," he adds...
...size of his victory, the triumph of other conservatives (especially a half-dozen Bible-believing absolutist senators), and the apparently terminal case of tax fever that felled even the residents of Massachusetts. And the results of last week's elections are not, by themselves, the heralds of Armageddon. Instead, they are proofs--compass checks--of trends a few years older. They demonstrate that the car has gone over the top of the roller coaster, that the nation is shrieking and waving its hands in the air, and that gravity has taken over...
...there was George McGovern, a Senator for two decades and once a presidential candidate who stood firmly opposed to the slaughter of Vietnam, who put forward a much-ridiculed plan to guarantee a small income for all Americans. McGovern was beaten badly by Jim Abdnor, for whom "slaughter" means instead federally funded abortion, who promised to cut taxes instead of supporting those "too lazy to work." With Carter and McGovern went Frank Church, John Culver '54, and Birch Bayh. Here in Massachusetts, the people overwhelmingly approved a huge reduction in local taxes, despite the warnings of city and town officials...
...government regulation, fighting a desperate rear guard action for the ragtag Great Society. A Cambridge city councilor next year will not be able to improve police protection, or deal with youth problems, or even see that the potholes in Mass Ave are fixed. He will spend his term instead trying to find the least damaging cuts in services--which is more important, teen centers or Meals on Wheels? Do we put 35 kids in each class or abolish the rent control board? Increasingly, conventional politics will become an irrelevant profession, for without voters agreeing to increases in the current levels...
Calling the committee "a new type of student activism," Chassin said, "We're dealing with a massive structure here and students will have to understand it to have any effect on it. Instead of making carte blanche demands, students will have the information to make reasonable requests...