Word: weres
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Similarly, 56% said that "inflation, high prices and the economy" were the main problems the country faces, but only 10% thought Carter has done well in dealing with these concerns. Kennedy ranked twice as high as Carter in people's confidence in dealing with energy and the economy. When...
The new public support for Carter has also had a strong effect on his chances when he is compared with the leading Republican candidates. In a TIME/Yankelovich survey in August, former California Governor Ronald Reagan led President Carter by four percentage points. But now Carter has pulled into a comfortable...
Many of the Republican campaign managers whose candidates trail Reagan have grown increasingly frustrated by Carter's dominance of national attention with his management of the Iran crisis. They feel that whatever chance they have of catching Reagan is being diminished by their own inability to criticize the President...
This wouldn't have happened if Mayor Daley were still alive." So Chicagoans console themselves when things go wrong, and last week, it is true, the late Richard J. Daley would scarcely have recognized his beloved city. A transit workers' strike stranded a million commuters and temporarily disrupted...
Part of the reason was that Mayor Byrne talked too much. She had threatened to bring in strikebreakers if the drivers walked out. She called in the parties to the dispute and announced a settlement before it was actually made. Says a former aide to Daley: "He never called people...