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...Dantin in many ways. Ideologically, the two are identical. Cochran, however, is the special pride and joy of Mississippi's powerful Country Club Set--a class of wealthy planters and businessmen who can usually fork out enough money to catapult their candidate to the top. Cochran served an impeccable term in Congress by conservative Mississippi standards: his ADA rating was a flat zero. His silver hair, boyish looks and stern businessman-like demeanor, combined with his voting record, make him a formidable candidate...
...looking singer who stands on stage clutching the microphone, rarely strutting about, even on the boldest tunes, gives Linda Ronstadt the power to captivate an audience. In it's February 1977 cover story on Ronstadt, Time called that vocal power "torchy rock." Well, you can choose your own descriptive term; whatever you want to call it, it's the essence of Ronstadt's appeal and the reason why she'll remain atop the rock world for years to come...
...house now is $63,000), and mortgage rates run 9% in and around New York City, 9.75% in the Chicago area and 9.75% to 10% in Southern California. Many people, burned by the stock market, figure that real estate is their best hedge against inflation and a good long-term investment. The baby-boom kids of the mid-1940s are now setting up housekeeping; most of these young families have two earners, and they confidently assume the burden of double-digit mortgages on houses that often run to six figures. This house-hungry group could keep homebuilding strong for years...
...bought over what it sold abroad rocketed to a total of $31 billion, and this year the deficit is expected to hit a record $33 billion. So last week when the President finally announced his long-awaited new National Export Policy, he conceded that "there are no short-term, easy solutions...
...same good sense should apply to the shotgun marriage between Government and business, in Bryom's view. Instead of telling companies how to combat pollution or industrial accidents, the Government should set short-term and long-term goals then use a tax system to reward companies that exceed them and penalize firms that "fail. Exasperated by the managers and regulgators who think that they can make sweeping decisions from a distant pinnacle he likes to say, "Santayana defined fanatics as those people who know what they are doing is what God would be doing if he only...