Word: popular
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Carter's-plan does have a growing body of support. Ready to defend it are the Chamber of Commerce, Common Cause and Ralph Nader's consumer constituency. The plan will surely be popular with the public, which has grown resentful of a bureaucracy that produces less while earning more money for itself. Inertia was perhaps tolerable when federal pay was not competitive with the private sector, but that is no longer the case. Secretaries, stenographers, keypunch operators and other clerical employees for the Government often earn more than similar workers in private industry. Average hourly wages...
...vote won by Democrats in the eleven Southern states slipped from 50.5% in 1960 to less than 30% in 1972, while the number of electoral votes they received went from 81 to zero. In a smashing reversal of that trend, Carter got 54.1% of the region's popular vote and 118 electoral votes...
...either motherly or tyrannical, depending on the viewpoint. Tiegs, who is Ford's client on the East Coast, has no complaints and probably should have none, considering that her income, largely earned through Ford, has been estimated at $300,000 a year. But Ford is not universally popular says a fashion photographer with satisfaction: "Now she's up against a businessman who's taking her best talent...
...Morris, in the third installment of that magazine's excellent "Pretenders to the Throne" series on presidential hopefuls in both parties (TNR. Jan. 28), attacks Brown for his vagueness on the issues and his lack of commitment to serious reform. Arguing that Brown's nonideological politics are "abstract, stylishly popular and perhaps personally gratifying, but ultimately barren regarding authentic change in government," Morris condemns Brown as a glib opportunist, if not an outright demagogue...
...undergraduate population, it seems, was so convinced that it didn't want to brave the rigors of a heavy reading period this spring, that 671 people packed Sanders Theater to listen to tales of Beowulf and Batman from Albert B. Lord, the star of Humanities 9b, "Oral and Popular Literature...