Word: blitz
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...decisive factor will be whether the President's economic program remains popular. There are arguments for and against the President's 1981 blitz: on the pro side, that only a ramrod approach could force a reversal of economic policy through a Congress that special-interest pressures dispose to delay; on the anti side, that the budget coup violated the spirit of governmental checks and balances. But in the end, Congress bowed because it was convinced that Reagan really did have a national mandate for his policy. He will probably continue to get his way so long-but only...
...Cambridge Committee for a Nuclear Weapons Freeze has been centering its efforts in Harvard Square ever since a two night "blitz" there last summer reaped 3000 signatures, Toby Pugh, one of the committee's founders, said yesterday. The all-volunteer committee is part of a state and nation-wide citizen campaign to freeze the development of nuclear arms...
...House. But at least the President's embattled National Security Adviser cannot be accused of giving up without a fight. After his surprise announcement that he was taking an "administrative leave" (with pay), the hitherto reticent Allen faced any and all questions of reporters in an extraordinary media blitz (see PRESS...
Like a karate expert, Allen sought to use the resources of the press to upend it. In a media blitz, he made the morning talk shows (a CBS limo waited outside NBC's Today show to take him on to CBS). He seemed to do best with television interviewers who knew the least about the facts. His blitz even extended to an appearance on one of those l-to-5 a.m. radio call-in programs, the Larry King show. Perhaps his toughest questioning came after Monday Night Football, where he appeared on an extended ABC Nightline that...
...have to wait and see." The decision would be the President's once the "facts" were in, said Allen, and "neither you, nor I nor anyone else should prejudge it." If this was the case, why was the public being subjected to Allen's media blitz...