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Word: electical (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1970-1979
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Just as in the darkest days of 1932 when fate gave America its great leader F.D.R., we now have a second opportunity to elect the one man who can bring our country back from the depths of despair. It will be a tragedy if the Republicans fail to nominate-and the electorate fails to elect-John B. Connally as our next President...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Letters, Oct. 1, 1979 | 10/1/1979 | See Source »

Last week Vatican sources disclosed that the Pope will make history again, probably in November, when he calls the 131-member College of Cardinals into an extraordinary session in Rome. In recent years the college has been convened only to elect a new Pope. Vatican watchers speculate that John Paul plans to revive the college as a consultative body, thus restoring some of the power it has lost over the centuries. Says one papal observer...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Nation: Preparing for the Pope | 10/1/1979 | See Source »

...response to another question, King, who is black, said the best way for Boston voters to fight racism in their city "would be to elect a candidate like Mel King...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Mayoral Challengers Debate Housing | 9/14/1979 | See Source »

Boston voters, however many of them will abandon the Red Sox and bother to vote, will elect a new mayor sometime in November. A field of six--only four of whom really count--will be winnowed down to a pair on September 25, when voters will go the polls for the preliminary elections...

Author: By Robert O. Boorstin, | Title: Everybody Wants to Be Mayor | 9/13/1979 | See Source »

True, Keynes argued that excessive demand and price rises could be countered by reversing the cycle?that is, by reducing government spending. But that required a degree of wisdom seldom seen in the spend-and-spend, elect-and-elect politicians of a democracy. Apostles of Keynes contended that to maintain the proper level of demand, the Government regularly had to "fine-tune" the economy with just the right amount of stimulus, either tax cuts or spending increases, or maybe both at once. As Feldstein puts it, the nonstop jiggling and juggling amounted to "an embellishment of Keynes beyond anything that...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: To Set the Economy Right | 8/27/1979 | See Source »

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