Word: stays
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...region because a massive majority of the blacks supported his cause. But now a large number of blacks, dismayed that the civil rights crusade of the '60s and Carter's Administration have not done more to speed their economic and social progress, are threatening to stay away from the polls. While most union leaders swung into line last week behind Carter, blue-collar workers packed Serb Hall in Milwaukee last March to greet Candidate Reagan and cheer his attacks on Big Government with shouts of "Give 'em hell, Ronnie...
...have made no judgment about 1984. As we have seen, this is a volatile period where even a few days or a few weeks are a long, long time. I'm not going to disappear." But right now the belief within the inner Kennedy circle is that he will stay in the Senate, from which he can help define national problems and offer solutions, all the while protecting his remaining privacy. He might find his party clamoring for him again in 1984, and he might find himself and the country truly ready by then. He is only 48, certainly young...
...political system that makes leadership such a personal matter, Ted Kennedy will be a central figure no matter what the circumstances. His determination to stay the distance in the brutal, exhausting primary fight and to raise his voice even in his hour of greatest defeat was courageous...
...back production, at the government's request, to an average of about 1.7 million bbl. a day. Traditionally, the companies had been splitting their production on a 45%-55% basis with the government, for daily liftings of about 1 million bbl. of crude. In order to stay at that level, the companies kept somewhat more of the reduced daily production for themselves and delivered somewhat less to the government...
Even for Brazil, which has the free world's eighth largest economy (G.N.P.: $209 billion), the burden of carrying such debt is debilitating. Just paying the interest charges on it will cost $7.3 billion this year. Unable to generate such funds on its own, Brazil must borrow to stay afloat; this year it needs an additional $12 billion, but so far has managed to raise only $6.8 billion. Yet many of the big international banks are approaching their credit limits for the country...