Word: elected
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...where politics is supposed to be as clear as the trout streams, the deal seemed clouded with back room smoke. Soon, two-term Governor Wendell Anderson, 43, will resign. His successor, Lieutenant Governor Rudy Perpich, 48, will then appoint Anderson to the Senate seat being vacated by Vice President-elect Walter Mondale...
...Moynihan report was one of the boldest documents on the American race problem-and one of the most divisive. In it Assistant Secretary of Labor Daniel P. Moynihan, now Senator-elect from New York, argued that economic aid alone could not bring equality for blacks in America. His reason: the black family, marked by female-headed households, high illegitimacy and absent fathers, had been destroyed by slavery and left trapped in "a tangle of pathology" that impeded real progress for black Americans...
...annual countdown of the number of shopping days left before Christmas. Counting along with them this year will be worried economists, who will be watching to see if consumers go on a buying spree that might lift the economy out of its doldrums. If that does not happen, President-elect Jimmy Carter is almost certain to recommend that Congress do the job instead by enacting a temporary tax cut of $10 billion to $15 billion-probably in the form of rebates to individuals on their 1976 taxes...
Businessmen do, nevertheless, have reservations and worries about the President-elect. They center on four issues...
...moving again, the experts indicated, could dangerously increase social and political tensions, especially in other economically bedeviled nations, such as Britain, Italy and, to a lesser degree, France. Moreover, almost all economists agree that a slump in Europe would be bad news for the U.S. Says Lawrence Klein, President-elect Carter's chief economic adviser: "What really scares me is signs of a worldwide slowdown at a time when the economies of the West have become increasingly synchronized...