Word: battleground
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...torrent as remarkable for its suddenness as for its size. There's been no similar topical fascination in rock music since the Beatles set off the psychedelic-drug-song craze in 1967. Listen to the titles: "Generals and Majors" (XTC), "World War" (The Cure), "Cold War" (Devo), "Battleground" (Joe Jackson), "Life During Wartime" (Talking Heads). There are songs about war in the Middle East, songs about nuclear war, political songs against war, jingoist songs for war, songs that use war as a metaphor for everything from love to race relations. Our songwriters have war on the brain...
...case promises to linger on no matter what the Justice Department decides to do. Greensboro officials, already upset because their city served as a battleground for those they view as "outsiders," were afraid that the decision will only spark further trouble. The verdicts did not trigger the rioting that officials feared, but more than 1,500 people in Guilford and Durham counties participated in peaceful demonstrations to "express citizens' concerns" over the acquittals. In the only violent reaction, a gunman in a speeding car fired shots at acquitted Klansman Smith as he drove along a deserted Lincoln County road...
...bowl of sugar." The election soon boiled down to a choice between proffered economic solutions: Manley's Third World socialism vs. Seaga's Western-backed free-enterprise monetarism. A cascade of reckless rhetoric from both parties also tried to turn the election into a false battleground between "godless Communism" and "sinister fascism...
...that as it may, the Reagan strategists are concerned about reaching women voters on several counts. Polls show that more women support the President than the Republican, particularly in some of the big battleground states. There are more women than men in the group of undecided voters whose allegiance on Election Day may be crucial. And there are more potential women voters than men voters in the U.S. population (about 52%). Women tend to turn out to vote in the same ratio as men and their numbers could prove decisive in a close election, as this one is expected...
...hurting them in some areas, are generally rooting for him to stay in the race while the Democrats are trying to push him out. Says a Carter aide: "Even in the single digits, Anderson can hurt us badly in New York and Illinois." Dispatches in depth from the eight battleground states, in order of their electoral vote size...