Word: wavers
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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Velluci's support is not likely to waver, although he may demand the mayor's office as a token of appreciation. But when Velluci, the senior member of the council, someday decides not to run again, his decision won't add his East Cambridge constituency to the CCA ranks. The Italian-surnamed successor that Vellucci-supporters are likely to find won't prove as liberal. Instead, a new neighborhood dynasty, like those built by other city conservatives, could rise, toppling the liberal coalition majority and with it rent control...
...during a special summer visit to the Soviet Union, Communist Party Chief Leonid Brezhnev. With this background, Byrd expects to be able to advise those Senators who may be unsure of the issues. And as majority leader, he can be expected to pressure, and protect politically, those who may waver...
Baltimore Manager Earl Waver, whose use of pinchhitters played a large part in Saturday's come-from-behind, 9-6 victory, yesterday started his ace pitcher, Mike Flanagan...
...Arab world. The continued upheaval in Iran and the growth of Soviet influence in South Yemen and the Horn of Africa have convinced many Saudis that the U.S. is no longer a trustworthy bulwark against radical change and Communist encroachment in the area. As the U.S. is perceived to waver, the Saudis are especially mindful that the Soviet Union must begin importing essential oil supplies by the early 1980s. And Saudi Arabia is acutely aware that the U.S.S.R. is not very far away, either in distance or influence. TIME Cairo Bureau Chief Dean Brelis, after a visit to Riyadh last...
With three records to his name, each a masterpiece, only the most prejudiced or uninformed listener will dismiss Costello as "just another new-waver" or "a boring punk." He's new wave only chronologically, and Armed Forces makes use of a diversity of styles most performers today are too incompetent or unimaginative to handle. If he can hold his paranoia in check, and prevent it from freezing all humanity out of his music, Elvis Costello may well go on to dominate the next decade the way his namesake dominated the '50s. At least until 1984, that...