Word: shows
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...strength of some indicators, Callaghan would seem to have little cause for seeking the delay. The latest polls show Labor running only slightly behind the Tories in voter approval, 47% to 45%, a vastly improved standing from that of only a year ago. Yet Callaghan and some of his closest advisers were not so sure. Chancellor of the Exchequer Denis Healey, in particular, warned the Prime Minister "not to go for the first patch of blue sky." His reasoning: there is a good chance that Britain's economic recovery, notably a decline in inflation from 26% a year...
...agree with E.F. Hutton Vice President Anthony Correra, who warns that gambling stocks "have run up too far, too fast. We think traders should sell and take their profits while they can." That is what the smart money may have been doing. In June, Securities and Exchange Commission records show, Resorts officers sold 24,800 shares in their own company, which were then valued at $1.87 million...
...only a few companies have pulled out. Polaroid canceled its dealings with a South African licensee because its film was being used on the infamous passbooks that blacks and coloreds are required to carry and show upon demand to the police. Citibank will no longer make loans to the South African government; the First Pennsylvania Bank will give no loans of any kind. GM, Kodak and Control Data have said they will not expand their South African operations...
...might just as well have stayed at home. One reason for the Camp David meetings was President Carter's hope of liberating the participants from the constraints of their own past rhetoric. That meant keeping them away from the press too. To prevent either side from stealing the show, top aides accompanying Sadat and-Begin agreed to refrain from leaking to the press until the talks ended...
Late opinion polls show that Florida voters are split about even on the issue. Some election handicappers think that if the proposition is defeated, the newspapers' financial help may be the deciding factor. Does that really matter? Because the press in many places is reticent about covering its own affairs, no one really knows how common it is for a news organization to lobby behind the scenes or support a controversial cause financially. Yet a number of papers and journalists' groups have codes of ethics that ban such involvement. Whether or not Florida's press succeeds...