Word: rans
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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When Carter began full-time campaigning after Labor Day, he immediately ran into trouble. Because private opinion polls showed that many voters feared he might be too liberal, Carter swung around; he tried to sound more conservative and only lent credence to Republican charges that he flip-flopped on the issues. He staked out three slightly differing positions on grain embargoes; he spoke of ambitious new programs and of balancing the budget; he painted an almost Depression-like picture of the U.S. economy that many people perceived as unreal. In a year of skepticism about politicians, he was beginning...
There were, of course, plenty of other races besides the big one, and in many communities interest in them ran high. The Democrats went into the election with overwhelming majorities in the Senate, the House of Representatives and the nation's statehouses. Some faces changed, but when the votes were counted, those majorities stayed firm...
Another loser was Missouri Democrat Morgan Maxfield, 35, who ran a campaign in which he gave voters the impression that he was 1) a self-made man, 2) a graduate of Harvard Business School and 3) a swinging bachelor. During the closing weeks of the campaign it was disclosed that Maxfield 1) was the son of a prosperous Texas physician, 2) had only attended a six-week business course at Harvard and 3) was married and the father of two children. He was defeated by Republican Thomas Coleman, 33, a lawyer and state representative...
Smith's claim that the Kissinger package is an inviolable whole promptly ran into vehement opposition from the black nationalists. With some of them coming directly from Rhodesian prisons or guerrilla bases in the bush, they were in no mood to approve a transition plan that would give Smith the opportunity to dominate events in Rhodesia for two more years. The African National Council's delegation, led by Bishop Abel Muzorewa, reflected much of the blacks' apprehension when it warned that Smith had come to Geneva merely to "carry out a gigantic fraud aimed at confusing world...
Born to a volatile Italian couple in Manhattan's Hell's Kitchen, Stallone grew up in Monkey Hollow, Md., where his mother ran a beauty parlor. He attended twelve schools by the time he was 15, and was thrown out of most of them. "I was into J.D.," says Stallone. "If I saw a housefly on the hood of a car, I'd stamp him out with an iron pipe. A very nice...