Word: edward
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...Traveling is no longer a luxury," says Edward Mayo, professor of travel management at Notre Dame. "It's a need, a right. You've got to get out of the house, get away from the urban centers, and people are going to get away one way or another." Many Americans, he asserts, think of their car as "a second home-a castle." Sociologist Wayne Youngquist of Marquette University agrees: "The car is America's magic carpet, and it gives people freedom and autonomy-it's their little box where they have control over their environment. There...
...found conservative Republicans joining liberal Democrats to pass the measure, and the full House is expected to pass it as well. Said Udall afterward: "The potential is there for making nuclear power the centerpiece of politics in 1980. It has an intensity of its own." Representative Edward Markey, 32, a Democrat from Maiden, Mass., who proposed the moratorium, was in his district last month talking to a man in his 70s. "You know," the old man told him, "I think those kids may be right again...
...meeting occurred just as antitrust was being pushed beyond its old boundaries on Capitol Hill and in the courts. Last week the Senate Judiciary Committee approved the so-called Illinois Brick Bill by a 9-to-8 vote, led by Chairman Edward Kennedy of Massachusetts. Prospects for passage in the full Senate and House are doubtful, but, if enacted, the bill would overturn a 1977 Supreme Court decision. Not only could middlemen and retailers sue and collect treble damages from a company for antitrust violations, but so too could individual consumers who join together in class actions. Businessmen fear that...
...Senator Edward Kennedy (D-Mass.) recently told Time, "They are multiplying like rabbits and they are doing their best to buy every Senator, every Representative and every issue in sight." He was talking about corporate political action committees (PACs) which, according to the Federal Election Commission (FEC), contributed over $8 million to the 1978 Congressional elections, far more than in 1976. As Fred Wertheimer, senior vice president of Common Cause has warned, "We're headed for a government of, by and for the corporate PACs of America...
...phone call to the company's Chicago headquarters from none other than Jimmy Carter. It was the President's first such jawboning-by-wire, and the highest official he could reach was the senior vice president for public affairs; the others were out to lunch, and Chairman Edward Telling was in an airplane flying over Kansas at the time...