Word: trailing
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...predict, or even hope, that the original court decision will be overturned. He said he was stunned when he was convicted two years ago, and is afraid to guess about the court's thinking now. "I have become a pessimist, since I was such an optimist during the trail," Edelin said. "I really didn't believe I could lost the case then...
...Jimmy Carter on the campaign trail...
TAXES. On the campaign trail, Ford reiterates that he would lower income taxes by $10 billion, in part by raising the personal exemption from $750 to $1,000. One-quarter of the cut would go to corporations, whose rates would be reduced from 48% to 46% on profits, helping them to accumulate capital for needed investment. But the President usually neglects to mention that taxes would be cut, by his own formula, only if Congress reduced spending by a like amount, which is most improbable...
...sturdy enough to support the weight of a full plot. The first has Holmes strung out on cocaine - his dosage is the pun in the title - and railing crazily against his nemesis, Professor Moriarty (Laurence Olivier). Dr. Watson (Robert Duvall) tricks his friend into following Moriarty's trail to Vienna. There they find not the archvillain, but the only man who can possibly save Holmes: Sigmund Freud (Alan Arkin). All this uses up time that might have been better spent drumming up suspense or demonstrating some elementary deduction. When Holmes finally beats his habit and flies...
...course, may have something to say about that once he fine tunes his vaunted Cook County organization. But in four different polls, Thompson has been ahead by margins ranging from 15 to 24 percentage points, and even Daley may not be able to narrow that sufficiently. On the campaign trail, Hewlett, 62, who established a good record as state auditor for twelve years and as secretary of state since 1972, has come across as a buffoon. He once said "F-you" to a television reporter-on camera. He also offered up a straight line to Thompson by criticizing...