Word: following
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...though the candidates had heard and heeded the advice of Anthropologist Margaret Mead. She had phoned Carter Adman Gerald Rafshoon a few days before the debate to urge: "Style over substance. Style over substance." Carter was at first unsteady and stumbled over words. He wove sentences difficult to follow in both their complexity and delivery. He was choppy, his voice unsteady. But as he warmed to his argument, he relaxed, smiled at his opponent's exaggerations and showed flashes of spontaneity and an eloquence exceeding Ford's. The President was more consistent, somewhat complex?and also more predictable...
...Speed up the debates. Rita E. Hauser, the Manhattan lawyer who headed the committee that set up the debate, urges that the others be cut from 90 minutes to an hour and that follow-up questions be eliminated because they slowed the exchange...
...replace him with Challenger Kohl. As they come down to the wire, the two Helmuts-as they have been for months-are running neck and neck. Kohl, hoping to get a last-minute boost from the victory of Sweden's nonsocialists, last week exhorted his countrymen to "follow the Swedes...
...energy crunch, when the Department of Transportation ruled that they were indeed different from motorcycles and lowered equipment standards for the machines. Since then, 23 states have adopted similar laws and low registration fees (14 states do not even require registration); another half a dozen states are expected to follow suit by year's end. During more than three decades of use in Europe, mopeds have proved safer than either cars or motorcycles...
...Ford wins, predicted Sprinkel, he will continue to 1) reduce inflation, 2) create more jobs in the private sector, 3) "follow a stiff line" on increases in federal spending, 4) maintain a moderate rate of growth in the money supply, 5) avoid wage or price controls, and, perhaps, 6) propose a further tax cut. This program might take a while to produce more economic growth, but, Sprinkel says, would avoid the danger of spurring runaway inflation...