Word: national
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...where Carter failed to carry a single state against Gerald Ford in 1976 and where Kennedy has been strong, Carter is ahead 49 to 35. At the same time, Jerry Brown has virtually been pushed off the board as a serious presidential candidate. Carter leads him 71 to 16 nation wide...
Still, the very volatility of the public mood shows that Carter's lead over Kennedy is far from insurmountable. Despite the unity over Iran, the national mood remains bleak, although somewhat improved since summer. Forty-two percent of those surveyed said the state of the nation was "very bad," and 34% rated it "poor." Only 24% said the nation was in "good" shape...
Lack of confidence in Carter's handling of these persistent domestic concerns is undiminished. The survey found that only 15% expressed "a lot of confidence" in Carter's management of the nation's energy problem...
...last week agreed to extend an extraordinary $1.5 billion loan guarantee to the ailing Chrysler Corp. and sent the measure to the White House for Jimmy Carter's signature. The gigantic bailout, dwarfing the $250 million Lockheed loan guarantee of 1971, is designed to save from bankruptcy the nation's third largest automaker and tenth ranking manufacturer (1978 sales: $13.6 billion). With Chrysler's losses mounting daily, its 1979 deficit is almost sure to exceed $1 billion, the gaudiest splash of red ink in U.S. corporate history...
...beloved city. A transit workers' strike stranded a million commuters and temporarily disrupted the city's economy. A walkout by oil delivery truck drivers caused a gasoline shortage. For the first time, the city's firemen voted to authorize a strike. And the school system, the nation's third largest, was on the verge of bankruptcy and in danger of closing. The "city that works" had never been so close to a breakdown...