Word: center
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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Those positions moved Carter toward the center, all right, but they also raised the old question of whether or not he was changing his stands to catch every passing political breeze. At this point in the campaign, it appears that Jerry Ford cannot beat Jimmy Carter?but Carter...
...nerve center of Carter's campaign is a small, windowless chamber on the 24th floor of downtown Atlanta's Colony Square office building. The door, unmarked except for a taped-up piece of white paper bearing the handwritten designation 22-A, is always kept locked. Only six persons have the key. Known as "the situation room," it resembles a combat-ready headquarters. The beige walls are decorated with charts, graphs and maps that reflect Carter's strategy. The barnstorming schedules for the candidate, his wife Rosalynn and their three sons and wives, plus Mondale and his wife, are traced...
...when the Bonn government announced that it would send a high Justice Ministry official to Washington in the next few weeks to make final arrangements for access to U.S. documents concerning the Lockheed scandals. This rekindled interest in the allegations that Lockheed bribes had gone to the right-of-center Christian Social Union, the Bavarian ally of the Christian Democrats, and its longtime leader, former Defense Minister Franz Josef Strauss...
Gatling is one of the 615 convicts who have graduated in the past three years from "street-law" courses taught in correctional institutions in the Washington, D.C., area. The program is the brainchild of Jason Newman, 37, a professor at the Georgetown University Law Center who believes lawyers must do more "to have laymen understand the legal system and know it's there to help them, so they can use it and not abuse...
...Scala of Milan will start things off in Washington, D.C.'s Kennedy Center Opera House. Next evening the Paris Opera will open at the Metropolitan Opera House in New York City. Putting its best forte forward, La Scala will offer-what else?-three Italians named Rossini, Puccini and Verdi. Showing somewhat less of a nationalistic strain, Paris will borrow Verdi for a while, and also offer Mozart the Austrian and, just to avoid outrage back home, France's own Charles Gounod...