Word: ahead
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...Carter lead over Kennedy covers all parts of the country. In Kennedy's previous stronghold, the Northeast, Carter leads 47 to 39. In the West, where Carter failed to carry a single state against Gerald Ford in 1976 and where Kennedy has been strong, Carter is ahead 49 to 35. At the same time, Jerry Brown has virtually been pushed off the board as a serious presidential candidate. Carter leads him 71 to 16 nation wide...
...home heating oil, a major expense for consumers in the import-dependent Northeast. Several of the largest oil companies, including Exxon, Mobil, Chevron and Texaco, last week announced wholesale gasoline price increases of 6? to 10? per gal. This signals further sharp rises at the pump in the weeks ahead for motorists, who are already paying an average nationwide price of about...
...longer bullion, and it is not hard to imagine a time when art will not be either. It has happened before, and can easily happen again. Those who pronounce on art's power as a hedge against inflation-as a commodity that rides the inflationary spiral, always ahead of money-tend not to mention that when runaway inflation lays waste an economy, as it did in Weimar Germany, the value of art collapses...
...anyone." He had sent the picture to her inscribed: "Clare, I really shouldn't! Zbig." Brzezinski was outraged at the Post's embroidery on his little sally. He and White House Press Secretary Jody Powell went to see the President. Carter was furious. Said he: "Go ahead and deal with...
...gymnasts. Three Soviet women in a row lost their grip and crashed to the mats while competing on the uneven bars. From then on, they played it conservatively, eliminating some of the more difficult tricks in the floor exercises in hopes of staying on their feet. The Rumanians charged ahead. Emilia Eberle, 15, heiress-apparent to Nadia's throne, reeled off a dazzling floor exercise; Melita Ruhn whistled through a difficult and risky performance on the uneven parallel bars. When the totals were in, the Rumanians had edged out the Soviets by .625 points. It was only the second...