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Dates: during 1970-1979
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The Senate was also uneasy about approving such an expensive program because the budget deficit is ominously rising. Congress set a goal of a $23 billion deficit for fiscal 1980 with the intention of balancing the budget the following year. But inflation has wrecked these plans, and additional spending is...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Nation: Summertime Slowdown | 8/13/1979 | See Source »

1) Thomas McGee, speaker of the Massachusetts house, has quietly supported a Carter move to get the state legislature to postpone the primary day, and 2) John White, chairman of the Democratic National Committee, has warned the state's Democrats that the March 4 date violates a D.N.C. rule...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Nation: Tandem Trouble | 8/13/1979 | See Source »

Baker articulated the dark thoughts that crossed the mind of many a citizen stuck in a gas line. If the big oil companies were gouging the American people, Baker declared, they risked nationalization. Baker was wildly against even the thought of such a measure, but as a professional pol he...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: THE PRESIDENCY by HUGH SIDEY: Proud of Being a Politician | 8/13/1979 | See Source »

He reveled in man and beast alike. He was an avid lifetime member of the San Diego Zoo. If he was embittered at the failure of revolution and the waning of his own popularity, he did not show it. His own life-robust, naysaying, always provoking-was the best refutation...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Nation: The Revolution Never Came | 8/13/1979 | See Source »

The election will cost $400,000, which is more than quadruple the county's entire projected property tax revenues if the cut passes. All of which comes from making a mountain out of a whole mill.

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Americana: Run-of-the-Mill Revolt | 8/13/1979 | See Source »

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