Word: counts
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...favorable signs, there was in some Washington quarters a disquieting sense of unease, a feeling that the President was skating on thin ice. One of the most notable facts about Carter's rise to the presidency was that he had no solid power base to count on. He won by putting together a remarkable but shaky coalition-liberals, conservatives, old-line Democrats, blacks, Southern rednecks, Northern hardhats. He seemed to promise something to everyone, and stressed themes that cut across ideological barriers: welfare reform, Government reorganization and, even more fundamentally, trust ("I'll never...
While discussing next Tuesday might be a bit premature--especially since next Tuesday might be spent in Cambridge watching Laverne and Shirley while reading Hobbes compare man to a machine (on second thought, don't count on it)--as well as optimistic, partisan, and somewhat like worrying about lunch at breakfast, it isn't really...
...House Committee last week declared Keane the winner of the election by a margin of one vote, but the House secretary found an absentee ballot in her office the day after the election. The committee ruled the vote official, and this tied the final count between Gaffney and Keane...
...Governor. His country-boy manner masks a shrewd, tough mind. Says New York Republican Barber Conable, ranking minority member of the House Ways and Means Committee: "Bert does a lot of talking about being a country boy. You know that kind-when he shakes your hand, you had better count your fingers." Cabinet members who appealed to Carter to restore Lance's cuts in their budgets were rebuffed. Says Jordan, no pushover himself as a bureaucratic infighter: "It's a serious mistake to underestimate Bert. He's more than a budget officer because...
...overcome. One inmate escapes by disguising himself as an altar boy and slipping out with a visiting Cardinal and his party. That the Cardinal actually aids the man is Cheever's way of saying that miracles are still possible. In the end, Farragut himself escapes like the Count of Monte-Cristo by hiding in a body bag intended for a dead convict. Since - unlike the Count - Farragut has no plans for revenge, the point seems to be that survival is always a miracle and reward enough. Falconer is not a young man's book...