Word: raying
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...TIME'S editors, the Lehnus study provided provocative reading and, as Managing Editor Ray Cave observed, a lifetime of winning bar bets (The first Man of the Year? Charles A. Lindbergh. Only basketball player? Oscar Robertson. First woman? Eleanora Duse...
...outcry against spending has been particularly loud at state and local levels, where the tax revolt also is fiercest. Iowa's Republican Governor Robert Ray complained about all the mandated federal programs that force states and localities to spend money that they do not have themselves. "We hire people whether we need them or not because that is the only way we can get our share of the [federal] money. We don't really like that." Governors, said Ray, would prefer to receive revenue-sharing funds that they may use as they see fit, to reduce taxes...
...this time, the Clamshell Alliance had brought a dozen demonstrators to picket the pro-nuclear stance of the governors' association Nuclear Power Subcommittee. State troopers and Boston police kept a watchful eye on the small but noisy stream of protestors shouting, "Meldrim Thomson, Dixie Lee Ray, we don't believe a word you say." They distributed reprints of an article in Rolling Stone by Edward Kohn headlined, "The Government's Quiet War on Scientists Who Know Too Much." They chanted for about three hours, but provoked no confrontations or bad blood, just a lot of disgusted looks from Sheraton windows...
There was no one to challenge Thomson or Ray inside the convention. Various governors lunched at the Nuclear Power Subcommittee's conference as Dr. Thomas A. Vanderslice, senior vice-president of General Electric, spoke on the "absolute necessity" of nuclear power. He created economic disaster "scenarios" replete with blackouts and massive underemployment that would occur if all new 211 power units (47 nuclear and 164 coal) are not built. "If these sites are not approved," he said, "we will have about 17 per cent less capacity in 1990 than we believe necessary to avoid serious curtailment of service and widespread...
...respectability of the tougher line: Edward Kennedy, who owns the most liberal voting record in the Senate, is the co-author of the revised U.S. Criminal Code that would, among other things, abolish parole boards and indeterminate sentences. There is a certain wistfulness in such measures. Says L. Ray Patterson, dean of the Emory School of Law in Atlanta: "The concern of the public is not so much for vindictive retribution, but for some retribution...