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Next week the Danes will head for the polls to elect their second Folketing (Parliament) in 13 months to decide how much welfare and inflation they will tolerate. The right-of-center minority government of Premier Poul Hartling, 60, called for elections last month after failing to muster a majority for a one-year freeze on wages, prices and profits. Although the bland, schoolmasterly Hartling has by no means attracted a large popular following, his Liberal Party (according to the latest polls) may win as much as 30% of the vote-compared with 12.3% in December 1973. If these projections...
Come Christmas, while the elect among football coaches are happily preparing for professional playoffs and college bowl games, many of their losing colleagues have already received preholiday presents in the form of dismissal notices from disgruntled owners or disappointed college administrators. The resulting scramble for jobs resembles a madcap game of musical chairs...
...university and make the team. He did both. The disease hung on. Remissions were achieved each successive time by a more dangerous and exhausting use of drugs. With each reprieve, Lund began running again, rebuilding weight and stamina. By his junior year he was a soccer star, the captain-elect for the next season, and in the opinion of writers who had no knowledge of his illness, a potential All-America...
...banner that overlooked the delegates' deliberations incisively described the base of support they aimed at--as "We the Democrats of the United States." In case there were still any doubters, the Democrats proceeded to make it explicit in their charter: the first purpose of the Democratic party is to elect Democratic candidates to the presidency and other national offices. It's the sort of party goal that makes the ideological diversity all the speakers kept praising easily attainable...
...brief testimony near the end of the hearing, Attorney General-elect Thomas P. O'Neill III said that Governor-elect Michael S. Dukakis has never proposed such cuts in state employment...