Word: bandwagons
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...Steiger bandwagon has infuriated Carter, but not until last week did he fight back. At his press conference, he snapped, "I will not tolerate a plan that provides huge windfalls for millionaires and two bits for the average American." Nor, he said, would he accept a watered-down version of the amendment sponsored by Oklahoma Democrat James Jones...
...very good friend of Israel." Other groups had much different feelings. The American Jewish Congress, which tends to shoot from the hip and almost automatically supports Israel's position in any Middle East argument, criticized Javits for climbing aboard the "Let's-put-more-pressure-on-Israel bandwagon." Richard Cohen, a New York spokesman of that organization, declared: "We believe that the life-and-death decisions involving Israel's security can only be made by the people who will have to pay with their lives for those decisions." National Director Bonnie Pechter of the radical Jewish Defense...
...collect they have. The Berkowitz bandwagon had, of course, begun early, even before his capture, with the sale of Son of Sam T-shirts bearing the latest police sketches of the unknown ".44-caliber killer." Still, it was not until after his arrest that the salesmanship began in earnest. Then-Mayor Abe Beame, faced with a tough primary fight, used the arrest to try to peddle his floundering law-and-order re-election campaign; although he failed, the election finally went to another to another candidate who played to the lingering public panic with repeated calls for the re-instatement...
Some money managers are wary about how long the rally can last. Many, including several large insurance companies, have been sellers of stock, and even Citibank has been using the rally to sell and diversify rather than to buy. Still, there has been a bandwagon effect as the majority of institutional investors have rushed in for fear of missing the upturn. Says Paul L. Smith, chief financial officer of California's Security Pacific National Bank: "These fellows are all scared of being left at the starting gate. The minute somebody starts to buy, the others don't want...
...commitment to the establishment of a Scottish assembly to deal with a wide range of Scottish matters, Labor hopes that it will pick up a large thank-you vote. In an important by-election in Glasgow last week, Labor won handily, a comforting indication that the Scottish Nationalists' bandwagon is not rolling. The Nationalists, however, have traditionally been drawn from the right, and there is always the chance they might decide to return to their Tory home. As a result, party leaders from both sides are doing everything short of learning to play the bagpipes in order...