Word: anyways
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...dismay over Carter's bland leadership. "In New York," said one top Democratic leader, "I could raise a million dollars in ten days if Kennedy just gave the word." Even if Kennedy doesn't give the word, some politicians believe that they can make him a candidate anyway. Last week a group of influential state chairmen met privately in Washington to discuss Kennedy's prospects. One notion was to use this winter's Democratic Party midterm conference as an opportune setting to whip up enthusiasm for Kennedy...
...sufficient. Instead, Sadat denounced the concept as fraudulent and negative. The Egyptian President's tough stand stunned the Carter Administration. "We are very disappointed," declared State Department Spokesman Hodding Carter. After talking over the situation with President Carter, Vance announced that he would go to Jerusalem and Alexandria anyway in hopes of achieving a "better understanding of where we stand...
...publication of whole books that purport to plumb the "psychological vibrations" of personal names. Dawn and Loretta and Candy are supposed to be sexy, according to Christopher Andersen's The Name Game, and Bart and Mac and Nate are macho. Humphrey is sedentary; so much for Bogart. Anyway Americans have not needed any tracts or theories to get them lunging after catchy handles. One Phoenix mother recently branded her new baby girl with the unforgettable sobriquet Equal Rights Amendment...
Just what Treu did wrong was not spelled out in the charge. Treu himself is not allowed to say; if he does, he will go to jail. He is likely to be imprisoned anyway because he has been found guilty. On what evidence? No one is allowed to explain that either. His year-long trial at Montreal's Palais de Justice, which concluded last April, was conducted in secret. All that has been revealed is his sentence: two years in jail...
...Howard Baker and Warren Magnuson can easily raise $50,000 through these affairs. Democrat Lud Ashley, chairman of the House Energy Committee, held a bash in July and netted about $30,000. Lesser lawmakers barely break even, but can't seem to shake the habit of staging such parties anyway. "It's one of the seamy sides left in lobbying," protests one of the ticket-buying victims...