Word: campaigns
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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Governor Edward J. King [April 2] was elected by Massachusetts on a campaign pledge to reduce state property taxes by $500 million. All I can say to Commonwealth voters is, you get what you pay for. You go for a bargain, you get bargain-basement quality. And boy, are we getting...
Weicker's 1976 Senate campaign platform called for rationing and decontrol of oil prices, two acts which he said last night would be the first national self-discipline since the oil embargo. "It would send the dollar shooting up," Weicker added...
...hadn't been for all those crazy liberals with "their anti-business attitudes and no-growth economic policies" that stifle Mother, God and free-enterprise. Other Bostonians, somewhat more constructively, are rushing checks to the MFA to try to raise $5 million for the SOS (Save Our Stuarts) campaign...
...national tour. It might once have been a luxury that helped bring the Met closer to the national audiences gathered around radios every Saturday afternoon to hear opera broadcasts; it has become--along with the opera blitz on public television--a critical part of the Met's campaign to raise money across the country...
Even at these rates box office revenue simply doesn't cover the Met's costs, so its management has turned to audiences outside of the house to try to make up the difference. Over the last two years--during which the Met budget has been relatively untroubled--the national campaign has succeeded in a big way. The "Texaco-Metropolitan Opera Radio Network" has been broadcasting Saturday matinees from the Metropolitan Opera House for the last 39 years, but the series of live telecasts begun in 1976 has proved a spectacular stimulant to contributions...