Word: majority
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...support for increased defense spending. He has criticized the administration for continuing with the Strategic Arms Limitations Talks (SALT) without obtaining further concessions from the Soviets. Tsongas, on the other hand, is a full supporter of SALT, an opponent of the B-1 bomber. He has voted against every major increase in defense spending since he first took office. And now that Brooke's challenge comes from the left, the Senator has waffled over the neutron bomb...
These days the scene down in the basement of Mem Hall is bustling. The pigeon-holed mailbox is crammed with as many as 30 to 40 new releases from major record companies each day, to be perused by the programming directors of WHRB's rock, jazz and classical music departments. There is ambitious talk of building a remote-control transmitter in Medford, which would increase the potential listenership by several thousand. WHRB executives themselves exude professionalism and self-confidence...
...hearts of those who either wanted change, knew of Droney's illness, or hated the annoying Kerry. He detailed comprehensive programs for the office, treated Droney's incapacity tastefully, and was the only county candidate to have extensive television advertising. As a result, Harshbarger was endorsed by virtually every major newspaper in Middlesex County, as well as the Boston Globe...
Carter is enlarging the Council on Wage and Price Stability to monitor major wage contracts and the price increases set by large corporations, and offenders will suffer at least a public scolding. Firms doing business with the Government will have to sign agreements to comply with the standards when they get new contracts. Although Carter said that these contracts involve $80 billion in Government purchases each year, so many of them involve untouchable priority items, such as defense purchases, that the Government actually has leverage over only some $20 billion in new contracts each year. Still another veiled threat came...
...serious objections. Most critics had three main complaints about Carter's program: 1) it does not include an all-out and specific attack by Carter on Government spending; 2) it does nothing to influence the supply of money, which usually grows along with federal spending and is thus a major cause of inflation; 3) it does not provide for any real enforcement of the wage-price guidelines...