Word: campaigners
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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Contrariness over the trade issue reached a peak on Oct. 25, during the second of two nationally televised debates between the party leaders. In that confrontation, and throughout the 26 remaining days of the campaign, Turner described Mulroney as a man willing to "sell out" Canada and reduce the country to an "economic colony...
...million viewers who tuned in to the exchange. Turner's critics argued that he had fallen on the nationalist strategy not so much out of principle but out of desperation: down in the polls, they said, he faced ouster as his party's leader if the Liberal campaign failed. But the tactic worked: within four days, the Liberals enjoyed, according to one poll, a 4- point lead...
...self-assured, apparently more confident than much of English Canada that its identity will not be submerged into a North American amalgam. Even the separatist Parti Quebecois, now a minority group, urged supporters to back free trade and Mulroney. Said Liberal strategist Patrick Gossage, a member of Turner's campaign staff: "There's a new Quebec out there. It's a happy, comfortable province...
George Bush, who endorsed a tougher Senate version of the bill during the campaign, said he would introduce his own ethics legislation. But odds are slim that Congress, without the pressure of an election, will enact a stricter ethics law affecting its own members. Observed Massachusetts Congressman Barney Frank: "There were a lot of votes behind this bill, but not a lot of support...
During the presidential campaign, George Bush vowed repeatedly to make education the domestic centerpiece of his Administration. With the reappointment of Lauro Cavazos as Secretary of Education, he has given the first indication of how he plans to carry out his pledge to be the education President...