Word: reasons
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...balance of political power in that city. Mayor Dianne Feinstein had expected to win a majority, but she polled only 42%. That forced her into a Dec. 11 runoff, which she might lose to Runner-Up Quentin Kopp, a conservative member of the board of supervisors. One reason Feinstein failed to win was the success of minor candidates: Punk-Rock Singer Jello Biafra astonished even himself by taking 3% of the vote. More significant, David Scott, an openly homosexual real estate agent who called Feinstein and Kopp "Tweedledum and Tweedledee," won 10%. How his followers vote will be decisive...
Barbeau devotes much of her practice to treating airline personnel and families of the dead after fatal plane crashes. Hired by the Association of Flight Attendants, she conducts group sessions and keeps a phone line open night and day for troubled survivors. Reason: the victim's obsessive need to talk about the ordeal is part of the healing process. Says Barbeau: "The unburdening must go on, over and over again...
...counseled relatives and colleagues of the dead after two air disasters that left no survivors-the 1978 San Diego crash of a 727 and the DC-10 crash in Chicago last May-says the shock resulting from these crashes was more widespread than usual I among airline employees. Reason: the outside observer always wards off fears of death by identifying with the survivor; with no survivors, those fears are harder to disperse...
...inflation outlook offers no reason for the Fed to pull back. Last week Carter's anti-inflation czar, Alfred Kahn, admitted that his earlier hopes for the nation to be out of double-digit inflation by next spring have been eliminated by increases in oil prices and mortgage rates. Kahn argued that inflation will not be brought under control so long as OPEC continues raising the cost of crude and the U.S. remains dependent on foreign oil. As a means of lessening that reliance, he said, the Administration had been considering a 500 per gal. gasoline tax and even...
...reason for New York's continuing co-op strength is the presence of moneyed buyers, including many foreigners, who do not need or care to bare their finances to banks; nearly two-thirds of the city's co-op purchases are all-cash deals. Elsewhere, bankers and brokers are devising ways to ease the credit pinch on buyers. Some California brokers arrange deals whereby the seller acts as his own bank; he agrees to turn over his condo to a buyer in return for a so-called trust deed, which requires monthly payments directly from the buyer...