Word: beachhead
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...slipped from 56% in February to 33%. A poll taken last month by Democratic Pollster Peter Hart found that the public agrees, two to one, with the statement that Reagan's programs favor "the wealthy and big business over the average workingman." Claims Hart: "It's a beachhead that has been established...
...Cabinet is forming, and so is the White House staff. The Administration-to-be has established a beachhead in Washington, gathered a talent pool, decreed that ceremony will be upgraded and the Inaugural Parade shortened...
...savage counterattacks by Iranian regulars and militiamen. Reported an Iranian journalist who witnessed one of the battles: "The carnage was unbelievable. The plains around the city were strewn with corpses." By Saturday the Iraqis claimed that their infantry had crossed the Karun River and thus established a new beachhead beyond Khorramshahr...