Word: campaigners
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...fact, Bush has the equation wrong. The United States clearly must finance the investments in productivity and human resources that the President seeks-it simply lacks the will to do so. Adhering to his "read my lips" campaign pledge, Bush adamantly refuses to consider a tax increase or even a value-added tax on consumption, or to tax costly, non-means based entitlement programs like Social Security for the wealthy. He also refuses to consider putting a lid on popular tax breaks for the middle-class, such as mortgage-interest deductions...
...York City in the Democratic primary against Mario Cuomo in 1977, the cutting issue was the death penalty. Even though the mayor of a city has nothing to do with the administration of justice, Koch whipped up passions over the electric-chair issue as part of his toughness campaign and easily claimed city hall...
Whether he's hunting turkey on his spread in Texas, running a bare-knuckles presidential campaign, or cutting a deal with world leaders, Baker works hard at "getting an edge." -- In a TIME interview, the Secretary discusses the new Administration's policies for the Soviet Union, Japan, the Middle East and Central America...
...diminutive Texan's 1962 success in becoming the first Republican Senator from the Lone Star State since Reconstruction helped inspire oilman George Bush to enter Texas G.O.P. politics. Last year Tower was one of the first prominent Republicans to endorse Bush, and he stumped hard for Bush throughout the campaign. Tower has coveted the post of Secretary of Defense for at least eight years; he asked Ronald Reagan for it in early 1981 and renewed his request immediately after Bush won last year. By then it had become a job of squeezing down a bloated military establishment. Even if Tower...
Franz Schonhuber, 66, the burly national chairman of the Republican Party, capitalized on that disillusionment. During the campaign, he called for the repatriation, in stages, of foreign workers, an obvious reference to the 120,000 Turks in West Berlin. He also urged tough measures to stem the flow of asylum-seekers, proclaiming that a "multiracial society is a red flag to our party. We don't want it." On election night, Schonhuber exulted, "Today the Germans have shown again the need for a democratically purified patriotism...