Word: bindings
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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FORD. Delays in down-sizing its cars and a cash bind have made Ford in many ways an even sicker company than Chrysler. Ford's big models are selling poorly, and it lags behind both Chrysler and GM in the production of small, front-wheel-drive cars. Says Auto Analyst Maryann Keller of Paine Webber Mitchell Hutchins: "Caught between GM, with all its money, and Chrysler, with a federal sugar daddy, Ford has to husband its limited resources...
Price knows that audiences have changed since 1904-or 1968 for that matter. The Goodspeed's plays are not exact reproductions, but approximations of the originals. For the first quarter of the century, the books of musicals, the stories that bind them together, were rudimentary. Modern audiences expect more of a plot, and the books have to be extensively rewritten, with dated jokes carefully excised. The editing has to be judicious, however, so that the show's spirit is retained. In Johnny Jones, for example, Adapter Alfred Uhry wisely kept Cohan's quaint jingoism. "You think...
...center of the furor expected at next week's Democratic Convention is Rule F3-c, which is designed to weed out defectors among the delegates. If adopted by the convention, the rule would bind all delegates to vote on the first ballot for the presidential candidate whom they were elected to support by state caucuses and primaries. According to the proposed rule, a rebellious delegate-for instance, a Carter delegate who wants to vote for Kennedy-could be replaced "at any time up to and including the presidential balloting." In practice, this would mean that the state delegation...
...race all the way." His race remains very uphill. Kennedy trails Carter in delegates, 1,982 to 1,235, with only 1,666 needed to win. To have a chance, the Senator must persuade the delegates to agree to free themselves from a proposed convention rule that would bind them on the first ballot to vote for the candidate they were chosen to support in state primaries or caucuses. Said Rick Stearns, who coordinates Kennedy's delegate wooing: "If Carter's people succeed in forcing that rule through, I can't see any way, short of armed...
...their rules and turned the selection process over to the voters, who were asked to stage a primary or caucus in each state. Primaries were not new. For years they had been essentially "beauty contests" that tested a candidate's appeal to the voters but did not usually bind the convention delegates. In 1952, for example, Estes Kefauver swept through the 15 primaries, only to be denied the nomination by party bosses who gave it to Adlai Stevenson instead. Under the new rules drafted after 1968, the results of the primaries became binding on convention delegates. "Direct democracy...