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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...decisive with a large number of people. It was a big, big plus for us." An NBC News poll following the debate showed 51% of respondents in favor of Mondale as Vice President, v. only 33% who considered Dole more helpful to his presidential candidate (see chart...
...leeward of it, rocking easily and triumphantly." Riddle's most famous nautical scene involves a desperate 13-mile trip in a dinghy through solid fog and tricky waters, with Carruthers rowing like a metronome on command and Davies guiding the boat with a stop watch, a chart and an uncanny knowledge of tides, shoals and currents...
...criticized these exchanges as unsubstantive, unspecific, and backward-looking, and has chided the candidates for not providing us with "visions" and "dreams" of the future. However, the kinds of issues which work best in our system--and which, therefore, have dominated our elections historically--are not those that chart the future but those that assess the past...
...this figure is probably an understatement and certainly not a reliable guide to what people will actually do on Election Day. Thus the experts who predict that only about half the electorate will vote may be right. The turnout of voters has steadily declined since 1960 (see chart). The drop was particularly sharp in 1972 because people aged 18 to 21 were eligible for the first time, and they are less inclined to vote than others. This year, says Daniel Yankelovich, "the election bears all the earmarks of 1948, except that we don't yet know which candidate will...
Watson's office is up on the third floor of the building, high over the Boylston Street traffic. Sixty Boylston is set up almost exactly like a bureaucratic flow chart, with decisionmakers--Watson and two assistant directors of Athletics--at the top, intermediate staffers on the second floor, and student managers in the basement. Jean MacIver, Watson's administrative assistant, says it was organized that way on purpose when Watson moved in four years ago, so that top administrators wouldn't be constantly interrupted by students needing help with minor details. But no one is really removed from...