Word: mavericks
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When Lee Dreyfus ran for Governor of Wisconsin in 1978, he pledged that if elected he would return the state's growing budget surplus to the taxpayers. The maverick Republican won handily, and promptly signed into law a $976 million tax relief program. "When you recover stolen property," boasted Dreyfus, "it ought to be handed back." Today the surplus is gone. To keep Wisconsin from going into the red in the next fiscal year, the tax-cutting Governor says he must raise the state's gasoline tax by 53% and scrap programs ranging from new highway construction...
...give uninhibited advice to the President. But once a decision had been reached, they would carry it out "regardless of the blandishments of special interests or the threats of congressional committee staffs or the desire for individual prominence or the fun of being referred to as an 'independent maverick...
...there are opportunities as well as sleeplessness and maverick guests on the lobster shift, and many veterans have graduated to higher things. John Chancellor was anchorman of Today before he joined NBC's Nightly News in 1970, and Barbara Walters had the same job before she jumped to ABC in 1976. As a reward for her a.m. heroics, Pauley already has been given the anchor of NBC's Sunday evening news, and Brokaw is a leading candidate to replace Chancellor when he leaves. Hartman is expected to ask for a chance to do more prime-time work when...
...suburb of Pittsburgh. Considering himself to be a moderate Republican, he voted for George Bush in the Republican primary this year and for Jerry Ford in the 1976 election. But he was not distressed by Carter's victory then. Says he: "I kind of liked Carter's maverick approach. He sounded so sincere...