Word: indexes
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...campaign is his claim to have restored trust to the White House. Among the Democratic candidates who competed in the primaries, Carter was the first to perceive that trust would probably be the major issue in the campaign. Each is offering his record of probity as an index to his trustworthiness. Both are devoted family men and each has a deep religious faith. Carter is a born-again evangelical; Ford is an Episcopalian who participates in weekly White House prayer meetings. Says Georgetown University's Political Scientist Jeane Kirkpatrick: "They come from modest origins, having achieved personal success with...
Sadlowski's campaign faces serious problems. Most important, perhaps, Abel supporters point out that during the contract that Sadlowski derides, union wages have risen $1.97 an hour, or 35%. That is more than twice the climb in the Consumer Price Index. Also, though Sadlowski's grassroots, "Hi ya, buddy" style is appealing to rank and filers, he is not well known outside his district. Some Steelworkers familiar with Sadlowski are suspicious of his friendships with such men as liberal Washington Attorney Joseph Rauh and former J.F.K.-L.B.J. Speechwriter Richard Goodwin. McBride, who went into the mills...
Press questioners know better how to ask the brief, pertinent question, then get out of the way. But they would all be well advised to come equipped, as Lawrence Spivak dourly used to do every Sunday on Meet the Press, with index cards to quote from whenever the candidate says something that contradicts an earlier stand...
...post-recession recovery, at least until recently. In July, according to the Commerce Department, retail sales fell 1.2%, continuing a softening that began to appear in April. Industrial production rose by a scant .2% last month, the smallest increase in nine months. At the same time, the Consumer Price Index, the nation's principal barometer of inflation, rose .5% in July, which translates into an annual rate of 6.2%-the same as in June...
...facile, despite the obvious effort and time the author spent on his study. It is not that he is unaware of the subtle traps and deadfalls of racial theory. In fact, he does his usual imitation of a Renaissance man by including mathematical formulas derived from a biochemical blood index. But Koestler's enthusiasm for the idea of a non-Semitic Jewry threatens to drown his own carefully drawn qualifications...