Word: upsets
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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Labor leaders are outraged because Carter does not consult with them more often on economic policies and seems more worried about inflation than unemployment. They are also upset about his refusal to boost tariffs to protect the shoe industry. Farm groups are angry over his penny-pinching proposals to hold down increases in price supports for their crops. On the other hand, businessmen fear that his plans for stimulating the economy, chiefly through a $50 tax rebate for most Americans, will not help the economy and may spur inflation. To add to the worries of the business community, the Labor...
...only Ivy League team the Crimson has managed to beat each of the last two years, Dartmouth, is still clearly a step behind the best five teams in the loop, but it is a dark horse capable of pulling off an upset along the way. Harvard travels to Hanover on May 14, hoping that won't be the day it happens...
...minutes Saturday, it looked like the adjustments would pay off and earth the Crimson an upset over the red-hot Quakers. At 4:04 of the final quarter, MacKenzie rung up the third goal of his hat trick to tie the game, 9-9. Penn looked tired, and when Michelson stopped a point-blank shot to stymie a Quaker scoring bid moments later, the momentum seemed to have swung to the well-conditioned Crimson...
...sulk? Not if I can help it. If we'd lost the last World Series, I wouldn't have been too upset to congratulate the other manager...
...stunning upset, Mrs. Gandhi lost her own carefully nurtured constituency in Uttar Pradesh by 55,000 votes to Raj Narain, a socialist buffoon whom she had trounced by 112,000 votes in 1971. "India is Indira, and Indira is India," Congress Party President D.K. Barooah used to boast. He will say it no more. Defeated in an adjoining constituency by 76,000 votes was Sanjay, in his first try for elective office. Of 542 seats in the new Lok Sabha (Lower House), Mrs. Gandhi's Congress Party won only 153 (v. 355 in the last Parliament), while Desai...