Word: baseness
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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Explaining her role in the White House, Wexler says: "There was a vacuum between the policy formulation stage and congressional enactment. They needed to create a base of support outside the Administration...
...Department of Health, Education and Welfare. His zeal for the task pleased Ike but not the party's right-wingers, who began to make trouble for the free-spending newcomer. Frustrated in his bold designs, Rocky decided that he needed to build his own political base. Few Republicans wanted to challenge New York's Democratic Governor Averell Harriman in 1958. Rockefeller was the answer to the state party's prayers: a new face with plenty of cash. Then came the surprise. This hitherto untested, pampered and occasionally standoffish scion of one of America's greatest fortunes...
...Shah is his belief that he can still go home again. The Ayatullah Khomeini, in his view, is a crazed man, a transitory figure. A successful military coup is unlikely, since junior officers and most of the army would not support it. The Bakhtiar government has no popular base and is bound to fail. The prognosis, then, is chaos; the only solution is the Shah. After all, the tide of history turned against him with unexpected swiftness; it could as swiftly turn in his favor. "I deserve another chance," he says. "And if I get it, my people will...
...biggest base, Catholicism faces a formidable challenge...
Above the church, on the hill above Moras En Valloire, is the Madonna, a huge statue erected in 1854 to watch over and protect the village. She was once the pride of the town, but today the short path to her base is overgrown, and she rarely receives visitors these days. At one time she was lit up at night, but the lights were smashed a decade ago and nobody has taken the time to replace them...