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...JUST HAVEN'T had the money to get the issues accross," posits Pratt's Campaign Manager Anne Watkins. But it's hard to know what happened to the Pratt drive. After an exciting primary victory and endorsements from the state's top Democrats, the campaign has fizzled. The endorsements themselves may have hurt...
...Democrats have become increasingly adept with voter registration drives, efforts which paid off handsomely in 1982 when they reclaimed one Senate seat, won the governorship, and gained more congressional votes statewide than the GOP. The leadership was banking on a tough fight for Domenici's seat by Judy Pratt, a charasmatic former state senator who would be New Mexico's first woman senator...
Their hopes are not to be, however, as all signs point to a landslide Domenici reelection. The Pratt campaign, hampered by inexperience and unable to get more than lukewarm support from moderate and conservative party brass, has not been able to get off the ground. Domenici, whose $2 million coffers outnumbers ten-times the Pratt treasury, is getting nearly 80 percent of the vote from all the pollsters...
...Chairman John Opel, whose company last week announced a 21.7% increase in profits for the third quarter: "1984 was a very good year for us, and we have a view of 1985 that essentially says more of the same." Added Harry Gray, chairman of United Technologies, whose subsidiaries (including Pratt & Whitney and Sikorsky) have seen their profits boosted by high Pentagon spending: "The outlook for '85 is excellent...
...ended its busiest week ever, twice breaking records for trading volume as the Dow Jones industrial average surged ahead for an 87.46-point gain, the biggest weekly advance in history. "Nineteen years on the floor of the exchange, and I've never seen anything like it," exclaimed Daniel Pratt, a floor broker for Smith Barney...