Word: round
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...Peanut Brigade," the group that carried the Carter campaign door to door in its early days. Old Friend Bert Lance was there, and the former Budget Director spent the night in the Lincoln bedroom. When one member of the Brigade told Carter that "on the next go round, you can count on every one of us again," a pleased President responded: "I'm not making any announcements about the future-but don't throw away those suitcases...
...Giscard d'Estaing has entrusted direction of the economy to a respected but politically inexperienced professor, Raymond Barre, 53, whom he named both Prime Minister and Finance Minister in August 1976. The jovial, rotund Barre, who likes to describe himself as "a square man living in a round body," wrote the textbook used most often in French economics classrooms. Since he moved to his offices at the Hotel Matignon, Barre has applied textbook economics to France's problems. His austere "Plan Barre," announced in September of last year, urged business to limit wage hikes to 6.5% a year...
...Meyers, competing in the top half of the singles draw, lost her first round match to third seeded Wendy Jennings of Trinity, 6-1, 6-1 and qualified for the consolation tournament. Meyers proceeded to outclass her opponents in this division and netted the women in white 2 1/2 extra points in the process...
Libby Pierpont, also playing singles, bested Sue Rand of the University of Rhode Island 6-3, 6-3, and Grace MacDonald of Bates, 2 and love, before falling in the third round. Battling on day for the first time all year, Pierpont lost to a woman she had previously defeated in the Greater Boston Championships, Tufts' Wendy Shahon...
...Behind the awesome tennis of Clarke, she and Miller outlasted the UMass team of Jurie and Sullivan 4-6, 6-1, 6-4, before coming up a few shots short against Martha Morehead and Maura Nolan of Boston College, 5-7, 4-6 in the fourth round...