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...rigidity caused him repeated trouble with the Georgia legislature. In 1974, while pressuring the legislators to pass a consumer protection bill, he scornfully described them as the worst in the state's history. Outraged, they stopped work for several days and bitterly complained until Carter retreated from his harsh words. But he stopped short of an apology. Indeed, Carter's refusal to yield on some points nearly caused the defeat of his major accomplishment as Governor?streamlining the state government by reducing the number of agencies from about 300 to 22. Recalls a top Georgia politician: "He couldn't pass...
...Popular Democrats were second with 23%, off from last year's 26%. Party Leader Francisco Sà; Carneiro's acerbic campaign attacks on opposition leaders seemed gratuitously harsh to many Portuguese and may have cost the party votes...
...melancholy harmonies. Some well-placed accents would have given the ensuing third movement the bounce it sorely missed. Stulberg picked up the tempo for the final allegro. His careening pace in the finale left his players nearly breathless. Their fleeting runs, although technically accurate for the most part, sounded harsh and forced...
...himself into deep political trouble. A former cop and police commissioner from South Philly's tough "Little Italy" district, Rizzo, 55, is accused of failing to uphold law-and-order in the city. Having campaigned on the slogan "He held taxes down," he is now advocating harsh new levies. So sharply has his honor's popularity plunged that a Philadelphia Bulletin poll published in mid-April gave him an anemic 27% approval rating among those surveyed...
While George Plimpton's assessment of Harvard's athletic facilities may seem rather harsh (it was presented from a scouting vantage point) it does largely ring true...