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...contests in the 1974 elections, the role of Watergate came into sharpest focus in those involving members of the House Judiciary Committee. Each member had either defended or assailed Richard Nixon and cast votes for or against his impeachment last summer as a national television audience looked on. While other considerations also affected each race, the overall pattern of results was significant. Of the 33 members seeking reelection, only one Congressman who voted in favor of at least one article of impeachment was defeated. Of the ten members (all Republicans) who opposed impeachment on each televised roll call, four were...
...unemployment rate in October climbed to 6%, the highest in almost three years and a rate exceeded only slightly and rarely since 1961. The Government's index of leading indicators-those that serve as clues to the future direction of the economy-fell 2.5% in September, its sharpest drop in more than 23 years. Productivity, or output per man-hour of the nation's workers, skidded at an annual rate of 3% in the third quarter. Falling productivity pushes up employers' labor costs and puts more upward pressure on prices. There was a smidgen of good news...
...these ills are caused by, or are at least complicated by, inflation. But what is causing the inflation, and what should be done about it? These are the questions on which President Ford will hear the sharpest dispute at the summit conference...
...analysts assumed that conservatism was best defined by those issues on which there is the greatest difference of opinion between conservatives and nonconservatives. The sharpest differences occurred over five basic concepts...
...outdrew all 235 other candidates for the state legislature, two years later led the Democratic ticket again when he ran for state treasurer. Since his election to the Senate in 1970 to complete Everett Dirksen's term, Stevenson has been one of the Nixon Administration's sharpest critics. Scholarly and hardworking, he called for funds to develop alternative energy sources as far back as 1972, recently directed the unsuccessful Senate effort to retain stand-by controls over wages and prices and has opposed the concept of federal revenue sharing on the grounds that some of the local governments...