Word: anyways
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...delegates. But some of Ford's support is amazingly soft. For example, most tallies give the President all of New Jersey's 67 delegates because a pro-Ford "uncommitted" slate swept the state primary; but six to ten New Jersey delegates stand to vote for Reagan anyway. Illinois Senator Charles Percy, a Ford fan, has surveyed all the state delegations and concludes that some 55 Ford delegates are wavering and vulnerable to Reagan. The challenger's aides claim that they have already lured away some delegates who are committed to Ford but are not legally bound...
There was also an important codicil: Xerox would have no editorial control over the essay. If the company had disapproved of it, Esquire would have been free to publish it anyway−and keep the money. Says Salisbury: "I saw no ethical impediments to doing the piece. After all, big corporations like Xerox and Texaco commission operas and other cultural enterprises. Meanwhile, the poor magazines have been dwindling away over the years, and along with them the employment of writers." For its part, Esquire was equally unfazed by the unusual arrangement...
...Economic Advisers, even mused that a lot of experts overlooked the important role of the automobile. The incredible mobility of the American worker destroyed the conventional theories. Added a White House economic strategist, "Unemployment statistics can no longer be used as an index of hardship." For this season anyway, that may be the epitaph of the old jobs issue as politicians have known and loved...
...distinguished enough to run the College office, others lobbying against him because they had conflicts with him in the past about undergraduate education. But administrative sources say Rosovsky is making a short-term versus long-term trade-off. He has bartered immediate controversy, never very strong concerning administrative appointments anyway, for the belief that Fox will ultimately make decisions and give hard answers to the housing mess...
...Fell to Earth, his newest and least successful effort, there is little to spell out anyway. The movie is about equally dazzling and disappointing, but where it goes wrong is in substance, not in style. Roeg's exuberance and invention are compromised here by a yarn that carries dank traces of Twilight Zone...