Word: budgeters
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...part to the new voters--students and tenants in particular. Sullivan waged a traditional campaign--pressing the flesh, ringing the doorbells--and he built up a large network of volunteers independent of the CCA. The trend is obvious down the line. Francis Duehay'55, who also ran a high-budget, high-profile campaign, finished stronger than ever before in his re-election bid, only a few hundred votes behind Sullivan. And the candidate who relied most on old-line liberal CCA connections, Mary Ellen Preusser, finished last, losing badly in her re-election...
...petition process begins on a rotating basis, with teams usually considered from December to March--before budget-making time. But this politicization of sports is nothing new. After all, politics is often called a zero-sum game...
...voter, it is tempting to go into hibernation from now until election day. Campaign promises, after all, have never been an accurate way to predict presidential performance. In 1932, Franklin Roosevelt campaigned for a balanced budget. In 1964, Lyndon Johnson won election as the candidate of peace. In 1972, Dick Nixon promised to take crime off the streets. In 1976, Carter--now father of the Department of Education, supporter of the M-X missile and across the board increases in military spending--promised to be a fiscal conservative...
...Senate, Baker has aimed with a Tennessee marksman's instinct for the middle of most domestic political issues. He favors a constitutional amendment to achieve a balanced budget, but he also wants a provision to authorize deficit spending by a two-thirds vote of Congress. He backs the Equal Rights Amendment, but he voted against extending the deadline for ratification. He supported most civil rights legislation and sponsored clean air and water bills that created extensive new Government regulations. Today he is a staunch opponent of Big Government and excessive regulation. In foreign policy issues, Baker has taken independent...
Hufstedler, however, has never held an administrative job, which led Rhode Island Democrat Claiborne Pell, chairman of a Senate education subcommittee, to question whether she has the "management and organization" skills to administer the new department, which will have 17,000 employees and a budget of $14.2 billion. Her admirers do not share Pell's concern. Said Occidental Executive Vice President Robert Bovinette: "She puts things eloquently, and she has the ability to quickly penetrate complex problems...