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Fields, who claims that only 20% of his money comes from oil-related contributions, will outspend Eckhardt by $600,000 to $150,000. "I've got a hell of a race on my hands," admits Eckhardt. "In the past, I've beaten a challenger who outspent me 3 to 1, and now I'll see if I can beat one who'll outspend...
George Bush is likewise counting on a last-minute delegate stampede into his camp. Says he: "I understand herd instincts." Bush's strategy is to outcampaign and outspend the front runner in key industrial states, just as he did in Pennsylvania, where he stumped for 14 days and spent nearly $1 million, vs. four days and $100,000 by Reagan. Bush figures that he can spend six times more than Reagan on politicking in the remaining contests because the Californian has already come closer to the $17 million federal limit on primary spending than Bush...
...measure and may not become clear until after competition has been badly damaged. As companies expand by merger, their muscle may scare off smaller competitors. In the words of Walter Adams, the conglomerate giants have the resources to support money-losing operations for long periods; they can simply "outbid, outspend and outlose" small rivals, creating a kind of economic Darwinism...
...Kojak and Huckleberry Finn, and the total is expected to top 20 million in 1978. Though waiters and cab drivers complain that they are not the world's best tippers, the foreign visitors will spend more than ever -nearly $9 billion, or $450 per person. Americans abroad still outspend them by almost $2 billion, but the gap is narrowing rapidly. Most important, foreign tourism is creating jobs in the service industries, which employ many blacks and Hispanic Americans...
...main opposition comes from Jimmy Carter, who is carefully organized and hopes to outspend Brown $500,000 to $200,000. Even if Brown beats him 2 to 1 in the popular vote, Carter could carry as many as 90 delegates and put his total beyond competitive reach. But Carter has dire disabilities. He is not well known; his appeal to blacks, so vital elsewhere, is muffled by Brown's near monopoly of the black political establishment...