Word: moods
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...Barnes was not directly involved, but after subsequent investigations exposed flagrant cases of nepotism (one legislator had five relatives on various payrolls) and misuse of state funds (another bought a pickup truck partly with $1,200 in state-purchased postage stamps), the disenchanted voters were in no mood for quibbling. "They threw the rascals out," moaned Barnes, "and me with them...
Given the climate for change, however, few political observers are ready to write off the chances of a candidate like sassy Sissy. "The mood for real political reform in Texas is as strong as it has ever been," admits one veteran Democratic leader, "and where it will all end is not yet clear...
East and Gulf Coast union leaders will meet this week to weigh whether to walk off the job. If they do, the West Coast dockers have promised to join, tying up all U.S. ports. Such a crisis seems unlikely, given the workers' mood. Indeed, there is evidence of restraint elsewhere in shipping. Last month the National Maritime Union, which speaks for 15,000 merchant seamen, agreed to a three-year contract with increases less than half as big as the dockers collected. The seamen apparently know that if they do not rein in their wage demands, they may continue...
Neither Cook nor other company officers can expect to collect any executive bonuses this year. That expectation, together with the earnings drop, left them in a dyspeptic mood, and somebody had to take the blame. Last month President Arthur Larkin, 55, took early retirement under pressure, and Cook, 62, already the chairman and chief executive, became president as well. Says Cook: "We have to do the surgery, get it over with, and get on with the business...
What clouded the crystal ball? With the benefit of 20/20 hindsight, it seems that political reporters looked too hard at the candidates and their strategies and not hard enough at the changing mood of the electorate. "The press," concedes Editor John Seigenthaler of the Nashville Tennessean, "missed the depths of voter disenchantment." To his credit, the Post's Broder identified a general malaise among voters that might hurt Muskie, and with a colleague sniffed out the Senator's problems in New Hampshire just before the voting there. But these findings had little impact until primary results began...