Word: narrowings
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...reason for the candidates' caution was clear: although the polls continue to give Carter an edge, it is extremely narrow. A new TIME-Yankelovich survey for Oct. 16 to 19, updated after the debate, showed Carter leading the incumbent by 4%-48% to 44%, with 8% still undecided. Before the debate, the figures had been 45% for Carter, 42% for Ford, with 13% undecided. The Harris/ABC poll had precisely the same pre-debate spread between the two major candidates-45% to 42% for Carter, with 5% for Independent Candidate Eugene McCarthy, 1% for Lester Maddox and 7% undecided...
...programs, educational benefits to Vietnam veterans, Medicare subsidies and public jobs programs. While vetoing social welfare programs because of their expense, the President recommend increases in defense spending that would have paid for the programs he vetoed and many more. Ford's opposition to government spending is clearly a narrow one. He has no such qualms about granting large businesses extensive subsidies and tax advantages, or providing the military with all the money it desires...
...MIDWEST. Carter is solid in Minnesota, West Virginia and Oklahoma as well as Kentucky, although the Playboy interview has hurt him in that state. He holds a narrow lead in Missouri. South Dakota and Ohio are leaning slightly to Ford; Carter is hurt in the Buckeye State by voter apathy and Eugene McCarthy. The President has more solid margins in Indiana, Kansas, Michigan, Nebraska and North Dakota. Illinois, Wisconsin and now Iowa-where Ford lost a thin lead last week because of the Butz affair-are rated tossups...
...Then, too, interest rates have been behaving, though less as a result of Federal Reserve Board money policies than as a consequence of sluggish loan demand. The prime lending rate charged by banks to businessmen, which stood at 7¼ last January, has bobbed up and down in a narrow range through most of the year...
...season is nearing the point, you see, that usually brings out the best in Restic-coached teams. After last weekend's narrow escape, it seemed obvious that Harvard isn't about to go flip-flop just yet, if ever. And besides, the big upset which seems to be scheduled each year occurred early this time around. Cornell, stand up and take...