Word: controller
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Dates: during 1980-1980
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...part of a political majority, but instead formed themselves into single-issue constituencies, an oddly specialized and peculiarly destructive version of politics. In the era of single-issue politics, it is not a broad political agenda, a party's view of the nation, that is important, but gun control or abortion or ERA or women's rights or busing...
...results surprised even the most optimistic Republicans. They had counted on a gain of maybe four or five seats in the Senate. They ended up with an eleven and possibly twelve-enough to give them control of the chamber for the first time since 1954. And victory was all the sweeter since the election toppled most of the Senate's leading Democratic liberals: George McGovern in South Dakota, Frank Church in Idaho, Birch Bayh in Indiana, John Culver in Iowa, Warren Magnuson in Washington, Gaylord Nelson in Wisconsin, and John Durkin in New Hampshire. Only a few liberals managed...
...Their success rate is more than 90%, compared with the more hazardous 68% success rate of their Senate colleagues. This year the powers of incumbency were sorely strained by the surprising Reagan-slide, the Abscam bribery scandal and the harrowing problems of inflation. The Democrats, nevertheless, hung on to control. Although at least 26 incumbent Democrats were defeated, and the Republicans had a net gain of 32 seats, the final breakdown of the 97th Congress will be about 245 Democrats and 190 Republicans...
...Minneapolis, executives of the Control Data Corp. hold a televised conference meeting with other company officials in Sunnyvale, Calif. Whenever someone writes on the electronic "blackboard" in Minneapolis, the information automatically appears on a terminal screen in Sunnyvale...
...future is not limited to the corporate giants. In Glendale, Calif., William Fusco, president of Hydraulic Industrial, a small-scale supplier of pipes and valves to local industry (1979 sales: $2 million), has spent $65, 000 on a mincomputer system that enables his 22 employees to monitor and control every administrative and record-keeping aspect of the business. For example, every time a particular item in stock runs low, the computer is programmed to warn of the decline...