Word: howards
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...Southern Republican leaders cheered lustily last week when Ronald Reagan accused Jimmy Carter of signing a "fatally flawed" Panama Canal treaty. They applauded enthusiastically when John Connally charged that the Democrats stood for the three Rs: "retrenchment, resignation and retreat." They gave warm welcomes to Senators Howard Baker and Robert Dole. The purpose of the three-day meeting at Disney World's Contemporary Resort-Hotel at Orlando, Fla., was to discuss strategy for next year's elections. But the G.O.P. faithful eagerly took a sneak preview of 1980 by sizing up four of the many presidential candidates...
...Howard Baker, 52, the nimble Senate minority leader from Tennessee, marshaled the Senate forces that killed Carter's bill for federal financing of congressional campaigns and helped write the G.O.P. alternatives to the Administration's energy-and economic-stimulus programs. He has not taken a position on the new Panama Canal treaty; if he backs it, he risks losing support from conservatives. Indeed, the treaty question is symptomatic of his more general problem. Explains a Republican Party official: "Baker has to make his bed and lie in it. He's either got to become a Reagan conservative...
...mucked and raked, the more they betrayed their frenetic ignorance. They could not peg Fidrych. He seemed content to sit up in his apartment, with an old stereo and a generous supply of Coors beer, nonplussed by the publicity. Soon the sportscasters' favorite line (crooned by the likes of Howard Cosell) implied that Fidrych had a few screws loose upstairs--that he was a bit of a flake, a nut, a loony...
...longer find Howard Cosell an insult to your intelligence...
...Seidler and Howard, the work begins now, as they start fundraising for their team's fall trip to either England or Scotland, Seidler said yesterday...