Word: sayed
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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Connally and Reagan grudgingly accepted the offer-the Texan's first ad, which cost about $31,000, was shown last week -but Carter was determined to get 30 minutes in early December to announce for reelection. His campaign committee filed a complaint with the FCC. "For them to say that the political season hasn't started is absurd," said a Carter aide. "The reason they don't want to sell the time is because it'll cost them money...
...Carter-Mondale Committee would have to fork over. (An FCC decision on their case is expected within two weeks.) The networks deny that money is a factor. They argue that if they sold one half-hour spot, they would be besieged with other requests; moreover, they say the candidates would do better buying time on local stations during the primaries. Reagan's staff did just that, but on a national scale. They organized a network of stations in the nation's 50 largest metropolitan areas and many smaller ones to broadcast his declaration speech...
When Jimmy Carter said a trillion, did he really mean to say a hundred billion or so? And did he threaten the oil companies earlier with "punitive" legislation when he actually only had an "unfriendly" law or two in mind? These were some of the weighty issues that preoccupied the policymakers on the energy front last week, as attention continued to be focused on Big Oil's current gusher of profits...
...staffers had to rush to issue "clarifications," The trillion dollars, a White House aide explained, is actually the amount of additional oil revenues-not profits-that the companies will receive as a result of decontrol of domestic crude oil prices over the next ten years. What Carter meant to say, the aide insisted, was that the Senate version of the windfall tax bill will leave the industry with $130 billion more in profits from decontrol than the House measure. Other aides meanwhile tried to downplay and defuse the remarks the President made a week earlier about "punitive actions" that might...
...Willie, say goodbye to America." With those words, Willie Mays ended his active baseball career six years ago. For 20 seasons with the Giants and two with the Mets, he had played the game with consummate skill and boundless joy. Under a $50,000-a-year contract with the Mets, Mays remained a goodwill ambassador for baseball, making publicity appearances and occasionally tutoring young hitters in the Mets' farm system. This summer he was inducted into the Hall of Fame after receiving more votes for baseball's highest honor than any other player in history...