Word: powerful
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...battle is refreshingly straightforward. No ideological clash is involved, just a personal power struggle waged with the vim and verve for which Chicago politics is justly celebrated. Ever since Byrne, 45, defeated Mayor Michael Bilandic in a major upset in last February's primary, she has tried to wrest complete control of the machine from the old guard. She knew how. When Mayor Daley was faced with a rebellious politician, Byrne's in stincts were: "Why don't you cut him up a little bit?" Lately she has been slashing so ferociously at errant machine members that...
...friends. When public scolding, sarcasm and humiliation did not force committeemen into line, Calamity Jane, as her detractors also call her, fired or demoted their friends outright. But the younger Daley refused to knuckle under and has emerged as the biggest threat to her drive for total power...
...addition to serving in the state senate, Daley, 37, is a committeeman from the Eleventh Ward, bastion of Irish political power and his father's impregnable home base. Daley ducked controversy until Byrne's behavior aroused his combative instincts. He first challenged the mayor in September, when he fought to abolish a sales tax on food and drugs. The revenue was needed for a tax-and-transportation package that Byrne had worked out with Republican Governor James Thompson. Daley failed, but won the backing of labor and the minorities and shook up city hall...
...tons-47 million tons short of the target, and the worst harvest since 1975. The U.S.S.R. has already contracted to buy 25 million tons of American wheat and corn and will probably purchase at least 7 million tons from other countries. Soviet production of oil, natural gas and electric power also fell short of targeted goals in 1979, which Brezhnev aptly described as "a very difficult year...
...mighty new weapon-the lawsuit -is being rolled out in the economic power struggle between the U.S. and Iran, and the battling is shaking the money markets. Lawyers last week went on a suing spree, grabbing up Iranian corporate and industrial assets not only in the U.S. but also in West Germany. The free-for-all rush after Iranian booty put investors and businessmen on edge, rattled money markets and in the process helped send the dollar into a renewed slide while pushing gold back up to more than $400 per oz. In the scramble, banks even wound up suing...