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Dates: during 1970-1979
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Voting belatedly, Florida's delegates split, 38 to 28, but that was enough to put Ford over the top. The 16c amendment was dead. From his control position on the floor, the normally soft-spoken Griffin shouted, "That dood it! That's it! That's it!" Final count: 1,180 no, 1,069 yes, 10 abstain...
...Florida or had money to go into Ohio, where Ronnie got 45% of the vote without campaigning. But we had no money. No money." She keeps thinking about those 1,500 Democrats who cast write-in ballots for her husband in the New Hampshire primary; their votes did not count. "If they'd only registered as Republicans...
...YORK. Strongly influenced by Vice President Nelson Rockefeller, the state had been expected to deliver all but a score or so of its votes to Ford. After the Reagan-Schweiker visit, Reagan gained only two new votes, neither attributable to his selection of Schweiker. TIME'S count showed 127 Ford votes in the delegation, 20 for Reagan and seven uncommitted...
...sell Iran "virtually any conventional weapons it wanted." As a result, concluded the subcommittee, "the U.S. cannot abandon, substantially diminish or even redirect its arms programs without precipitating a major crisis in U.S.-Iranian relations." * Indeed, said the subcommittee, there were so many Americans -24,000 at last count-in Iran as a result of these sales that in a crisis, they could virtually be held hostage by the Iranian government...
...measure of efficiency in industrial enterprises-a way of keeping economic score. Whether a business is well or badly run, whether investments are productive or misguided, whether the products are competitive and appealing-judging performance without reference to profits is like watching a baseball game where nobody bothers to count runs. Again, the Soviet experience has demonstrated the efficacy of profits. For years a Soviet factory manager fulfilled his quota under the central plan by turning out a certain amount of goods regardless of expense or popular demand. But now, in order to improve quality and control costs, most Soviet...