Word: winner
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...right-to-work law when he was Georgia's Governor was somehow responsible for unemployment in Philadelphia. Big labor and most of the state's party sachems were pushing for Jackson in hopes of stalling Carter and making the Pennsylvania outcome so indecisive that the real winner would be Humphrey. Locals of the Sheet Metal Workers' International Association, the International Ladies' Garment Workers' Union, the International Union of Operating Engineers and other unions were sending out mailings for Jackson, canvassing by phone and planning to field thousands of people to get out the vote...
...saying she may be for Jackson, and she agrees to give out Woods' handbills. At a Giant Eagle supermarket, a woman who seems uninterested in the presidential election tells Woods he looks like a tall Kirk Douglas. Benjamin Woods (6 ft. 3 in.) also looks like a winner in the 42nd, and if Jackson ultimately is a loser, Woods will be with Humphrey in July...
...deal with unemployment, inflation and economic growth. The technical ability and political insights of these experts can make or break a campaign-as illustrated by George McGovern's 1972 economic program that turned into a vote-losing albatross. Moreover, the ideas of the economists who advise the eventual winner can shape the way Americans live and work for years after the election-especially if, as can happen, the candidate's campaign advisers become the policymakers of a new Administration...
...contrast, Jackson also has listened to Kenneth J. Arrow, a Harvard professor and co-winner of the 1972 Nobel Prize in Economics. Arrow last year signed a declaration condemning capitalism for producing "primarily for corporate profit" and calling for a search for alternatives to prevailing Western economic systems...
When Tom Seaver's contract talks began, the New York Mets first insulted the man known as their "franchise" by threatening to trade him. That is no way to comfort a three-time winner of the Cy Young Award, which goes to the best pitcher in each league. Then they signed Seaver to a three-year contract worth an estimated $690,000, but which includes incentive clauses of dubious legality...