Word: planned
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While drifting from various magazine jobs, moving intermittenly from freelancing to regular jobs, White covered European politics, economics and the Marshall Plan while working in Paris. There he collected material for a bestseller about the hearing of Europe. As things settled down abroad, White returned briefly to the States and got a taste of U.S. politics. An introduction was enough, and he returned to the States for good. To get back in touch, he traveled cross-country and learned less about America than he did about himself and his sublimated passion for politics...
...taxes after promising in his 1974 campaign that he would not. King is clearly to the right of his Republican opponent, Francis Whiting Hatch Jr., a proper Yankee of venerable lineage who is attracting the support of many liberal Democrats. Hatch, who proposes moderate tax relief, describes King's plan to cut property taxes by $1.3 billion over a three-year period as a "fiscal fantasy." MINNESOTA. Second only to the Bay State in its staunch liberalism, Minnesota has a Democratic candidate for the Senate no less conservative than King. Businessman Robert Short defeated liberal Congressman Donald Fraser...
...election were held today, the Democrats would easily keep control of Congress: 37% say that they plan to vote Democratic and 21% Republican. Democrats lead in all regions of the country, especially the South. About as many Republicans as Democrats (6%) now plan to cross party lines, and there is a greater percentage of undecided Republican voters than Democrats. In fact, only 55% of registered Republicans are now prepared to say they will vote with their party...
...Talks with Vance. We were sparring, we didn't make any ground. We're not opposed in principle to an all-parties conference, but we are opposed to going with preconceived conditions. For example, the Anglo-American plan would liquidate the Rhodesian security forces. This would lead to absolute chaos. Then they want to establish an appointee of the British government as virtual dictator. We wonder why this is necessary. The Americans and British say [Joshua] Nkomo is the man, that you can forget [Robert] Mugabe. Now, I don't say that [British Foreign Secretary David] Owen...
...goes according to plan, print-starved New Yorkers will wake one morning this week to find that yet another daily has apparently joined Rupert Murdoch's Post in reaching a separate peace with the city's striking press unions. The 24-page paper, selling for a rather extortionate newsstand price of $1 (the result of a costlier-than-expected union settlement, the paper explains in a frontpage notice), looks just like the Times, only more...