Word: williams
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Mississippi had a somewhat more decorous race. William Winter, 56, lean and bespectacled, lost two previous gubernatorial races to more colorful and conservative candidates. This time, Winter stressed his experience as a former state legislator, state treasurer, state tax collector and Lieutenant Governor. Since Winter has contributed articles on Mississippi history to academic journals, his intellectual side was balanced with a TV commercial showing him firing a pistol on a state highway-patrol range...
Venturesome companies are betting millions on shale as they plunge deep into development projects that could soon foster a new energy industry. TIME Los Angeles Bureau Chief William Rademaekers reports from the heart of the U.S. shale country...
According to the testimony, Bird and Justice Mathew Tobriner, both liberals, frequently had note-taking aides sit in on their conversations with conservative Justice William Clark because they did not trust him. The antagonism between Bird and Clark reached the point where the chief justice refused to speak to either him or his clerks. More important, the testimony indicated that the court's procedures were slow, cumbersome, even archaic. That view was echoed by Robert Thompson, a former California appeals court justice, who told TIME Correspondent Edward J. Boyer that the court was taking on too many cases...
...actions, and the group's chief economist, Ken Thygerson, admits that it "was necessary to deal a lethal blow to speculation in the housing market." Ben Heineman, president of Northwest Industries, calls the program a "sensible way of checking inflation." Even Senate Banking Chairman William Proxmire, normally the central bank's most vociferous critic, endorses the program, saying it has had an important "psychological effect." The battle against inflation finally seems serious...
...President Robert Georgine warned that President Carter's pledge to his workers to "not fight inflation with your jobs" would be recalled, perhaps vengefully, by blue-collar voters in next year's primaries. Carter's chief economic adviser Charles Schültze and Treasury Secretary G. William Miller began privately hinting that they had worries about the intensity of the Volcker program, and former Fed Chairman Miller made a gratuitous dig at his successor: "Had I stayed at the Fed, my timing would have been different...