Word: phantoms
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...women should the U.S. resume a military draft, the fate of laws that limit demands on the physical strength of women laborers, and the future of previously all-male sports like football at public schools. But in Florida, as in other states where the ERA has lost, the phantom issues, not the realities, carried the day. Complains the chairwoman of Georgia's ERA Council, Dotsie Holmes: "The legislators are all too willing to succumb to the hysterical group of women who go down to the statehouse screaming, 'Please don't make me equal!' " So successful...
Amin: I would like 24 Phantom airplanes...
...when Israel lost about 100 jets and 800 tanks. Arms purchases abroad since then have totaled $6 billion, swelling the balance of trade deficit in 1975 to more than $4 billion. The outlandish cost of armaments-$25 million for an F-15 today, v. $4 million for a Phantom jet in 1970-along with the rising prices of other imports, pushed the inflation rate into the stratosphere...
...Phantom," told in flashback, depicts life in what Shepherd calls an archetypal Midwestern town during the 1940's. "It is the story of a family, each character impinging on each other, intertwining to create a story line," Shepherd said...
Shepherd termed "Phantom" an "anti-nostalgia" film that tries to show "if you think it's bad now, it was worse then...