Word: select
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...writes a note that might have been minted for the Me Decade: "The Cult of the Self presupposes either optimism or a dilettante's attitude toward life. Both nonsense. Do not select a life, but make the one you have stretch...
...Atlanta about how his tax-cutting crusade might hurt them, California struggled with a more immediate problem. On July 1, the end of this week, Jarvis' triumphantly successful Proposition 13 goes into effect, with its more than $7 billion slash in revenues from property taxes. As a select committee of six of the state legislature's most powerful members worked feverishly on a rescue plan, thousands of lobbyists flocked to Sacramento to apply pressure...
...committee chamber. So did the state's influential teacher and school lobbyists. Committee Member Leo McCarthy, speaker of the state assembly, passed up so many meals as the deadline neared that he had a severe allergic reaction to energy-sustaining almonds and had to be temporarily hospitalized. Select Committee Chairman Al Rodda, a mild-mannered former college economics instructor (his doctoral dissertation was The Economic Mind in 18th Century Colonial America), spent 18-hour days grappling with the economic minds of angry 20th century Californians. Also breathing heavily on the legislators was Governor Jerry Brown, whose own plans...
...Kraft also plays the quiet troubleshooter in a variety of delicate situations. For instance, in Puerto Rico, rival factions for two years have been contending for control of the party apparatus. One of the issues is whether the island will have a presidential primary in 1980 or continue to select convention delegates by caucus. Kraft, who speaks Spanish well and has built a strong bond with the group backing primaries, helped to coax a "compromise" through the Democratic National Committee that favors the pro-Carter faction and im proves the prospects for a primary. Should Carter face a challenge from...
...electoral assembly of 1,010, ineluding all parliamentary deputies and senators, along with delegates from Italy's 20 regions, must now select a successor. The vote could indeed run through the summer vacation: Leone, himself a compromise candidate, was elected in 1971 to succeed Giuseppe Saragat after 16 days of voting in which no fewer than 23 ballots were held...