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Penn managed one first down, but two plays later, on third-and-one at the 29, linebacker Joe Azelby, on a blitz, jarred the ball loose from quarterback Doug Marzonie, and middle guard Scott Murrer fell...
...Ohio, voters chose to continue the state's monopoly on the sale of workers' compensation insurance, rejecting a $4.3 million promotional blitz by the insurance industry. In Texas a plan that would have set aside half of the state's surplus revenues for water projects was defeated 57.4% to 42.5%, despite the backing of powerful Texas politicians. Opponents, including the League of Women Voters, teachers' groups and environmentalists, charged that the measure amounted to a blank check and circumvented normal budgetary processes...
...loans are turning out to be somewhat of a letdown. Since they became available on Oct. 1, only about $40 billion worth of the new certificates has been sold, and $15 billion of that amount rolled in during the program's first week, when banks pressed an advertising blitz promoting them. Treasury officials now estimate that total deposits over the one-time-only, 15-month life of the program may wind up no higher than $100 billion, which is far below the $250 billion originally projected by the banking industry. Says a top Treasury Department official: "Sales...
...better off with the Democratic version? But the tide had clearly begun to turn. O'Neill phoned potential defectors until midnight on Tuesday, trying vainly to keep his colleagues in line. But the next morning the Speaker admitted the imminence of defeat, blaming it on "a telephone blitz like this nation has never seen." Afterward, however, the Speaker joined Rostenkowski in phoning the White House. Said the President: "This is most gracious...
Congress's lopsided approval of the plan (20 to 0 in the Senate Finance Committee, 29 to 3 in House Ways and Means) was the result of one of the year's most determined lobbying drives. One leader of the blitz was Industry Lobbyist Coley O'Brien, who quarterbacked Notre Dame's 1966 national championship tie game against Michigan State. This time his team included the savings league's 500-member legislative conference of bank executives and its 160-strong Political Action Group...