Word: majority
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...will rest squarely on the shoulders of the mayor of Cleveland." A normally calm professional financial adviser to the city clenched his fist. "It's driving me crazy," he said. "This is a political default. It's not a question of finances." Thus Cleveland last week became the first major city since the Great Depression to default. And it did so not because the situation was beyond saving, but because the mayor, councilmen and bankers went into a tizzy of bickering...
...major problem is the army. Since the Shah derives his strength from the army, it may prove difficult to convince him of the wisdom of relinquishing control of it. Similarly, the army's loyalty could be stretched to the breaking point if the Shah should appear to be doing anything to weaken his own authority and thus that of his armed forces. A confidant of the Shah's said late last week that there were only two possibilities left: either there would be a civilian government with strong support or there would be a military coup from either the left...
...major speech this fall Neto declared, "We are not going to be so radical ... We are not going to attempt, as some comrades do, to get rid of the private sector ... The private enterprise of farmers, small businessmen, masons and carpenters is an important facet of production which we need in the country...
Last week, in an announcement that excited physicists round the world, University of Massachusetts Astronomer Joseph H. Taylor added new weight to the Einsteinian case. At a gathering of astrophysicists in Munich, Taylor reported indirect experimental evidence affirming a major tenet of general relativity: the existence of gravitational waves. Predicted by Einstein, but never positively detected, this elusive radiation is the carrier of gravity, just as light waves are the carriers of electromagnetism, another of the universe's basic forces...
...Coury's major gifts, as he would be the first to concede, are in sales. "Sales like ours don't just happen," he snaps. "We make them happen! And I sell the sizzle!" How he does this could serve neatly as a crash course in the fine points, and pressure points, of selling records. Two basics from the Coury primer: "Nobody gets rich on singles: singles advertise an album. Most important: get your records on the radio...