Word: elected
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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Surrounded by thrusting, omnipresent TV cameras and microphones, California reporters have lately opened some of Governor-elect Ronald Reagan's press conferences with a wry jab at his former profession: "O.K., everybody. Quiet on the set. We're rolling." Yet laugh as they may, ex-Actor Reagan is rolling on to his inauguration with as much professional style as if he had played the part a dozen times...
...With more than 500,000 new residents pouring into California every year -plus 350,000 instate births -the state faces a continual crisis in providing essential services. Reagan's fiscal advisers have told him that he will face a deficit of $350 million next year, and the Governor-elect has already warned that new taxes may be forthcoming. "As the picture looks now," he says, "I don't see any other way out. It's a dark, depressing picture. We can't postpone the day of reckoning. It has caught up with...
...Word He Can Use. Like all the other Republican Governors and Governors-elect, Reagan spent the weekend at Colorado Springs. Alighting from one of two private jets that carried a party of 13, he rejected the gaudy gold Cadillacs (complete with seat warmers) that ferried the other participants, plopped himself instead into a sober blue limousine...
...batch of laws, he simply decreed them. When politicians irked him, he suspended their political rights. When Congress balked two months ago, he simply dissolved it. As a result, Brazilians have been wondering what will come after next March 15, when the military's hand-picked President-elect Artur da Costa e Silva takes office. More of the same? Or a gradual return to democracy? Last week they got their answer when Castello Branco released the proposed draft of Brazil's first new constitution since...
...allowing the Georgia legislature to elect the governor, the Court has retreated from the position it enunciated clearly in its decision on the county unit system: "The conception of political equality from the Declaration of Independence, to Lincoln's Gettysberg Address, to the Fifteenth, Seventeenth, and Nineteenth Amendments can mean only one thing -- one person, one vote...