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...there, most probably in Wisconsin and Oregon, and he might even mount a challenge in Reagan's home state of California. George Bush, too, vowed to fight on to the end, and he hoped to do well this week in Connecticut. But even if the underdogs snap and bite from time to time, there seems to be no way they can stop the march of delegates falling in behind Reagan and Carter...
...that much conservation: a reduction of only 100,000 bbl. a day the first year, by Carter's estimate, in petroleum imports that now average 8 million bbl. a day. In order to prompt really significant conservation, a gasoline tax on the order of the 50?-per-gal. bite that Republican John Anderson has been proposing might well be required...
...Averell Harriman was once known in Washington, more or less affectionately, as "the Crocodile" for his deceptively sleepy-looking gaze and sharp bite. He is 88 now. Henry Cabot Lodge is 77. Last week in Boston, the World Affairs Council, honoring Democrat Harriman for long and distinguished diplomatic service, asked Republican Lodge to present the award. The two have compiled more than 90 years of public service-including Harriman's stints as Ambassador to the Soviet Union and Britain and Lodge's tours as envoy to South Viet Nam and West Germany. In his acceptance speech, the Crocodile...
...same time, this display of fiscal firmness is failing to impress its intended audience. The program's goal is to prove to the business world that Carter is man enough to grit his teeth and make the helpless bite the bullet--thereby reversing self-fulfilling inflationary expectations. But the consensus on Wall Street is that not enough old people will freeze, too few children will go hungry and, in short, stricter discipline is necessary...
...emergency package." Said he: "Gradualism is not the answer when you have such a deeply embedded inflationary psychology." But officials abroad remain skeptical. Concluded a top official in the West German Economics Ministry: "They know what they have to do in Washington. But they're afraid to bite the bullet...