Word: cars
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...Gerald Ford and Jimmy Carter talked at length with TIME about their campaigns, in effect making a final plea to the voters. Aboard Air Force One, between campaign stops, the President chatted with Chief of Correspondents Murray Gart and Correspondents Dean Fischer and Strobe Talbott. While riding in a car from Plains to Albany, Ga., Carter spoke with Gart and Correspondent Stanley Cloud...
...used to be that we could set a goal for ourselves at the end of five or six years; with our savings we could make the down payment on a house, we could buy a new car in two years, we could be sure that we could put our kids through college. Now that has been wiped away by rampant inflation, which in this Administration has been at least three times what it was under President Johnson. There is no way to predict what is going to happen in the future...
...such a period. Arthur Okun, 47, chairman of Lyndon Johnson's Council of Economic Advisers (now a member of TIME'S Board of Economists), suggested that Americans are not looking for drastic changes but "the kind of changes Detroit makes from one year to another in its car models...
...shoved Gollobin over to a nearby parked car--without answering the reporter's question--whipped a piece of paper from his briefcase, requested Gollobin's name--the reporter obliged, his face redenning--copied it down meticulously, and, as a crowd of about 100 watched, he began making his way toward his Francis Ave. home in Cambridge...
...Ranger stopped by with news of endless rain we wavered and soon had to admit that we weren't going to wait anymore. It felt good to be moving again as we sloshed through the leaves which cascaded down around us in the strong wind. We reached the car by dark...