Word: givens
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...outcome may be close, certainly closer than the polls now indicate. Already the Kennedy challenge has begun to redefine the presidential election. Already it has brought out new mettle in Jimmy Carter, given focus and direction to his campaigning. Determined not to allow Kennedy to dominate him or the news, Carter has geared nearly every recent move he has made to the primary battles (see following story). Some Democrats fear that the struggle between the two will irreparably damage the party's chances of holding on to the White House. To Democratic National Chairman White, the Carter-Kennedy fight...
...Kennedy has no basic disagreement with Carter's economic views, but like Carter has given no clear idea of how he would solve inflation and other economic problems. He does charge that Carter has not been pushing his policies aggressively enough. Says Kennedy: "I believe those economists who say that psychology contributes at least 50% to the state of the economy. This economy has been managed erratically. Problems weren't seen ahead of time." For instance, he says, he would have established wage and price guidelines earlier than Carter and backed them with strong pressure from the White House. Kennedy...
...proposals would have given the U.S. the right, denied in the SALT II draft, to deploy ICBMS as large as the U.S.S.R.'s huge SS-18. The Kremlin would have balked at such a treaty revision, and that made Baker's measure a killer amendment. For this reason, the committee rejected it, but only...
Maybe someday. But given the current size of Radcliffe's applicant pool and the possibility, as Schwalbe suggests, that Harvard alumni would complain vehemently if the number of men fell below 1000, that day is a long...
...many people around campus, of course, knew that the policy committee existed, much less had been given a new lease on life. The Committee's mandate, save one portion, was very vague. The 1977 agreement assigned the group four basic functions...