Word: populars
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...provisions in the Senate bill became law, the Treasury would gain only $100 million in taxes in fiscal 1977. By 1978 it would lose $900 million, and the loss would rise to $2.8 billion by 1981. The biggest revenue losers would be some of the more politically popular items. Among them...
...development, along the model of the Soviet Union. The other, led by Chairman Mao, considered ideology and participatory decisionmaking more important than economics, and found the proposed industrial path too dependent on the establishment of an elite group of technicians to be acceptable for a country whose goal was popular democracy in government. By the mid-'60s, Mao's followers had won out at least at the highest bureaucratic levels. What, then, caused the years of factionalism, and the disputes that culminated in closing all universities and allowing students to go out to the countryside and learn from the peasants...
CHRISTOPHER ("KIT") BOND, 37, popular Governor of Missouri, who would bring to the ticket a fresh face, unscarred by scandal-and not identified with Washington. Bond has trimmed Missouri's 87 state agencies to 14. Wealthy, self-assured, he has successfully fought against graft, and is so middle-of-the-road that both Reagan and Rockefeller have campaigned for him. Liabilities: limited experience and the fact that his elevation to the ticket could cost the G.O.P. the governorship...
JOHN RHODES, 59, who succeeded Ford as House minority leader, will be chairman of the Kansas City convention. A Goldwater conservative from Arizona, Rhodes is popular with many moderates as well. His opposition to environmental issues has landed him on a list of a "Dirty Dozen" marked for defeat by preservationist groups. His House background (a member since 1953, minority leader since 1973) is too similar to Ford's to do anything to blunt Jimmy Carter's non-Washington appeal...
...folksy ways and humble origins appealed then to the press and public alike. Earthy in speech and impatient in manner (the Japanese, he once said, "must learn the art of coming to the point as fast as possible"), he built up a cando, populist image. Although he was popular and admired, Kaku-san was never able to free himself of the whiff of financial scandal. Typical was the Shinano-Gawa riverbed case of 1964. A nameless company bought an abandoned tract of dry land in the Shinano River, then made a killing later on when the government revealed railroad...