Word: calling
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...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...
...years in the Congress, has proven that he is capable of bringing home the bacon. But if elected, he'll be the new man on the block. Balance that against Brooke's marital and financial problems and you've got a race that some say is too close to call...
...about you and I want you to care a great deal about what happens to us on November 7." Bellotti, who is wearing a light easter-egg blue suit smiles cheesily and steps off the stage. Everyone pats him on the back, and he is surrounded by friends who call him Frank, "ole buddy...
Ferzoco points to a row of children's photographs lining the top of her desk. Picking out one of three smiling, hand someblond children, she says, "These were all from the same mother. The youngest was only six weeks old when I got a call from the hospital. The mother brought it in because it wouldn't stop crying." The child had a broken collar bone, and when the doctor examined it further, he found several other partially healed fractures. "Only six weeks old and she'd done that already," Ferzoco says. "We finally took the baby...
...none of that, and if he had tried, he would have had a tough tangle with the profligate Congress. Instead, the Administration sent out signals that it worried much less about stemming inflation than stimulating the economy. Who could mistake the message in Carter's call, early in his presidency, to add billions to spending and to rebate $50 to every American taxpayer? Carter attempted to meet the demands of every constituency of the old Democratic coalition, and practically everybody else as well. He gave in to-or actively encouraged -increases in the minimum wage, Social Security benefits, veterans...