Word: jersey
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...born and raised in Clinton, N.C., the son of two professionals who happen to be black. I lived in New Jersey for 13 years. I regret my return to the Sunbelt...
...spending policies, which generally favor less-developed areas, have persistently drained wealth from the Northeast and Midwest and diverted it to the Southern states. A recent study by the National Journal, an independent publication that analyzes federal policies, found that in fiscal 1975 the states of New York, New Jersey and Pennsylvania received $10 billion less from various Government spending programs than they paid out in taxes. The eleven states of the old Confederacy came out $8.7 billion ahead...
NORTHEAST. Carter is now ahead, but if he stumbles Ford has a slim chance of capturing the fat bags of votes in New York, Pennsylvania and New Jersey. Explains a top New York Democrat: "The Catholic problem is real for Carter. A lot of union people are still holding back. The business with the bishops?he has to find a way to take the sting out of that. People are not against him, but they're not yet hot for him either." New England breaks down fairly neatly: Ford is ahead in the top tier of Vermont, New Hampshire...
...Wall, Carter's Illinois campaign chief and an ex-McGovernite: "Most of our people recognize that a McCarthy vote is a Ford vote, and they're not going to do that." Some Republicans, however, fear that McCarthy might nab their independent votes. Says Tom Kean, the New Jersey Republican Assembly minority leader and the head of Ford's campaign in the state: "He could take votes away from both sides...
...have proclaimed that many of the nation's universities and colleges have deep financial problems. But the magnitude of the crisis has been difficult to assess owing to the limited number of institutions surveyed. Now, the most comprehensive national study to date has been made by the New Jersey Commission on Financing Post-Secondary Education for the September issue of Change magazine...