Word: belled
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...interesting race is shaping up for the U.S. Senate seat from New Jersey between tax-cut trumpeter Jeffrey Bell and ex-New York Knick basketball star Bill Bradley...
...year-old Bell, one-time New Jersey campaign director for Ronald Reagan, rode the crest of the Proposition 13 wave to a stunning upset over veteran incumbent and popular liberal Clifford Case in une's Republican primary. Since that time, the polls have had the widely recognized liberal Democrat Bradley way ahead...
...Dollar Bill's" current margin, however, stands only at about 35 per cent to 23 per cent. Bell, backed by a couple of hundred thou in campaign contributions from the Republican National Committee--the largest contribution to any non-incumbent candidate from the GOP--is waging a big media blitz in the last few weeks aimed at the large number of undecided voters. Issuing the standard call for huge tax cuts (of at least 30 per cent), Bell claims that the election is "a referendum on President Carter's economic policies...
...senior staff of President Eisenhower's Council of Economic Advisers. From 1974 until his appointment to the CAB, he was chairman of New York State's Public Service Commission. Under his direction, the PSC allowed telephone users to hook up their own equipment to the Bell system and permitted utility companies to set different electric rates depending on the time of day. As Kahn advised his CAB successor, Marvin Cohen: "Understand how a free market works and restrain one's tendency to meddle...
...fifth the size of friendly rival M.I.T. Two-thirds of the incoming freshmen in an average Caltech class have scored a perfect 800 on advanced-mathematics college-entrance exams. Seventeen of its faculty and alumni have received Nobel prizes; two weeks ago, Alumnus Robert Wilson, now a researcher at Bell Labs, joined this elite roster by sharing the Nobel for physics...