Word: populars
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...seemed to keep saying that there were limits to what he could do. Finally one former presidential adviser summed up the feelings of the group. Said he: "The President has a terminal case of meekness." The Harris poll reflected this view in its latest measurement of Carter's popular standing. Only 36% of those surveyed gave the President an overall favorable rating. When he goes to California this week in an effort to drum up support, Carter will find some Democrats openly hostile. Not only are the $1,000-a-plate tickets for the Democratic National Committee dinner moving...
...California legislature, by a vote of 12 to 8 in its ways and means committee, declined last week to join the other 28 states that have endorsed a constitutional convention. But the economists agree that Brown has caught on to quite an issue because there is tremendous popular pressure rising in the U.S. to do something to contain inflationary Government spending. Politicians everywhere hear complaints from their constituents about the Government's inability to control the budget. So legislators are seeking advice from economists on ways to put legal limits on deficits...
Though most apartments are being converted to condominiums, cooperatives traditionally have been much more popular in New York City. In a fairly typical example for that city, a couple bought a seven-room co-op on Manhattan's Upper West Side for $16,000 when the building was converted five years ago; last summer they sold it for $75,000. From 1974 to 1978, the average price per room in New York City luxury buildings jumped from $11,000 to $19,000. In that four-year period, the number of applications filed with New York officials to convert apartment...
Says Tom Corcoran, president of the popular Waterville, N.H., Valley Resort...
...explanation for this disastermania: it is merely a harmless byproduct of popular entertainment. Explains Science Writer Isaac Asimov: "Hollywood just happens to be very good at special effects, primarily destructive effects." Indeed, in a forthcoming book, A Choice of Catastrophes, the polymath popularizer seeks to soothe anxieties about global disaster. Says Asimov: "All the scenarios are either very low in probability, or very distant in the future...