Word: listing
(lookup in dictionary)
(lookup stats)
Dates: during 1970-1979
Sort By: most recent first
(reverse)
...courtly, soft-spoken Haskell sounded unconvincing when he vowed to fight inflation and cut taxes. Similar issues in Nevada buried Lieutenant Governor Robert Rose, who tried to keep the governorship in Democratic hands after Incumbent Mike O'Callaghan retires at year's end. Republican Attorney General Robert List handily defeated Rose, again by calling for tax cuts...
...American today to list five words with which he would describe himself. It is rare that Republican or Democrat will be on the list. In fact, a sizable number of candidates in this fall's campaign displayed an amazing reticence about letting the voters know what their party was; the affiliation was widely regarded as either an encumbrance or an irrelevance. In New Jersey, a voter reading one key piece of Senatorial Candidate Jeffrey Bell's literature could not have told whether he was running as a Republican or a Rosicrucian...
...ballots in one precinct were being deposited in a garbage can because there were no proper boxes. In another precinct, the election supervisor was reported to be reading ballots before putting them in the box. At yet another polling place, Police Officer James Jablonski reported, precinct officials consulted a list of names and repeatedly cast ballots. Explained one with striking candor: "We just have six more to do. These are ghost voters." When an official offered Jablonski a wad of bills if he would forget what he had seen, he arrested them for attempted bribery, ballot-box stuffing and tampering...
...company founded on the still somewhat radical idea that an advertising enterprise can prosper by acquiring a lot of firms that are allowed, even encouraged, to compete with one another. The firm's mainstay remains McCann-Erickson, which bills more than $1 billion annually in ads from a long list of blue-chip clients, including Miller Brewing and Exxon. The Marschalk agency, which was a small outfit when McCann-Erickson bought it in 1955, is now one of the fastest-growing U.S. ad firms, handling such heavyweights as Gillette, Heublein and Paine Webber. Erwin Wasey, a West Coast firm that...
...offers a vacation from the old warhorses. For amateurs, there is the simple appeal of playing the pieces, not just listening to them. The Amateur Chamber Music Players, Inc., a group founded in 1946 that promotes evenings of devoted playing, has grown to about 7,000 members. Its directories list names of eager players in almost every state and 60 foreign countries...