Word: prided
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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Southerners elsewhere could hardly contain their pride in the first President from the region since 1849. Said North Carolina State Senator Harold Hardison of his friends' eagerness to attend the Inauguration: "They'll be there just as sure as a cat's got climbing gear." Added Shelby Smith, a retired building contractor in Helen, Ga.: "It's been a long dry spell for us, and we feel a little like farmers when they get that first whiff of needed rain...
More than regional pride lies behind the enthusiasm. Most Southerners think Carter will find the right approach to unemployment and inflation, the two problems that head most lists of priorities. They also share his views on cutting Government waste and overhauling the tax system. Said Atlanta Artist Charles Mitchell, who carved the 5-ft.-wide mahogany presidential seal that will hang behind Carter as he watches the Inaugural parade: Carter's hit on a lot of things that I've been fussing about for years, and now he's trying to do something. The commentators...
...livelihood. Said Ron Francis, director of the Denver-based American National Cattlemen's Association: "We are against Government support in general. We support the law of supply and demand, but we need price support and emergency livestock loans." In Douglas County, Wash., Rancher Gary Dalin swelled with pride because his 16-year-old daughter Heidi had just been named local Beef Princess. But in other respects he bemoaned the farmer's lot. Said he: "Just when the price begins to get a little better, we're seeing cows coming in from Canada and Mexico and frozen beef...
...home Ford pointed with pride to his success in trimming the inflation rate from 12.2% when he took office to a current 5%. Though he acknowledged that unemployment remained too high, he noted that 4 million more people were at work now than in the spring...
...good many Western firms that have been involved in natural resources in the "developing" nations since the colonial era have had to make some sharp changes in the way they handle their overseas empires. Some of the companies that have not adapted to new realities of local pride and politics have learned to regret it. The most recent example is Sime Darby, a rubber and palm-oil conglomerate in Malaysia that had been one of the stouter remaining pillars of Britain's overseas commercial empire. That pillar fell with a crash over New Year's with an upheaval...