Word: rivalled
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...week-long trip down the Mississippi River. At each stop the President plans to repeat his energy lesson. After the boat docks at St. Louis, he will head east for a few days' vacation in Plains, Ga., and Camp David. Carter acknowledges that a possible presidential rival, Senator Howard Baker, gave him the idea for the trip. Said Press Secretary Jody Powell: "Since Baker made several suggestions recently to the President and since the President could not accept some of them, he decided to take Baker up on this...
...over SALT. He raised his questions back home, and his state of mind is crucial as the debate rumbles along. When Jimmy Carter came down from the mountaintop in his new leadership robes, Baker, who was not invited to the seminars, swallowed hard, but once again supported his political rival...
...data to such giant conglomerates as Gulf, Texaco and Standard Oil Co. of California. Newcomers have swelled the population of the metropolitan area from 1.2 million in 1970 to 1.6 million today-including 4,000 geologists. One of the nation's fastest-growing cities, Denver has begun to rival Houston for the title of "Energy Capital, U.S.A...
...American counterparts that the U.S.S.R. is headed toward one of its most disappointing grain harvests ever-about 185 million metric tons, way down from last year's 237 million metric tons. The Soviets asked to enlarge significantly their purchases of American wheat and corn, so that they will rival in magnitude the record Russian buying...
Singh will head the first coalition government in India's postcolonial years. His unstable support consists of his own faction of the multiparty Janata group that supported Desai until recently, plus two rival branches of the Congress Party, one of which is headed by former Prime Minister Indira Gandhi. So precarious is this coalition that Reddy, in his letter asking Singh to form a government, requested that the new Prime Minister seek a vote of confidence in the lower house "at the earliest possible opportunity...