Word: zeros
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...inevitably be. As Governor, Carter condemned his state's legislature as "the worst in the history of the state" when it refused to pass a consumer-protection bill that he favored. Although there have been charges to the contrary, he was a good Governor?pushing through government reorganization, establishing zero-based budgeting and sensible environmental controls, improving the prisons, expanding mental health services, greatly increasing the state's budget surplus with no real rise in taxes. But his steady scrapping with the legislature hindered him from accomplishing even more. His stubborn streak also showed during the primaries, when he refused...
...full of high expectations at a time of low hopes. Some see a Daniel delivered over to the lions of the capital city, crouched to devour his plainness. Some quake before their own image of a Confederate Cromwell, brassy with power, bent on razing their comfortable habitations down to zero, as the Yankees razed Atlanta in the war. And many beyond the Washington swirl have been convinced that whatever else he is, Jimmy Carter is a man of mystery who will continue to engage the political dramatists for years to come...
...blustery near-zero night last week, 25 law officers hiding in hip-high brush watched silently as a huge DC-6 cargo plane dropped low over Highway 611, rolled down a landing strip of a tiny Pennsylvania airport and lumbered to a stop at runway's end. For almost an hour, while the law shivered under blankets only yards away, the plane sat motionless; the only sound was the static of radio chatter emanating from people who watched from other vantage points near by. Then three rented vans, a Mercedes sedan, a Chevrolet station wagon and a Ford...
Sally brings with her one possession, one consolation, one lifeline to the Brave New World she rather wishes she had been born into-her television set. James is a puritan: a beekeeper, a man who splits elm at 20° below zero, a myth maker whose hero is Ethan Allen, not the Fonz. James hates Snoopy, Coca-Cola, California, astronauts (they are there to "undo him") and, above all, television. One night James takes out his 12-gauge shotgun and blasts away at Sally's picture tube as if it were the devil's eye; when she objects...
...audience inside, sheltered from the sub-zero wind-chill cold that the protesters endured, didn't seem to believe that, though. Most politely applauded Colby when he finished. They listened patiently when he explained the necessity for gathering information about other countries. They did not offer dissent when he said that he tried to reform the CIA in 1973, before the sensational revelations about assassinations of foreign leaders, deals with Mafia hit-men, domestic spying...