Word: candidate
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Restic also has nothing but praise for his punter, pointing out MacMurray's dedication toward trying for improvement. Yet MacMurray himself is as candid as anyone in assessing his own abilities. Sure he's averaging 35.0 yards per punt now -- the same average Jim Curry finished with last year -- but there's still the bad punts, the low ones that go 18 yards...
...flexibility--a little-recognized characteristic of the New Right. It is, of course, opportunism, not dogmatism, that gives the Right its bite, and Thurmond and Helms are specialists at tailoring their positions to rightwing fashions. Thurmond may perform octogenerian calisthetics, and Helms may run off his mouth in seemingly candid ways, but the iconoclasm is a put-on. Both are skilled professionals when it comes to pushing the panic buttons on issues like the Panama Canal, gun control and the ERA. And both know that while race as a campaign issue has had its day, there are other issues that...
...military spending, but the W.C.C. does not monitor its use. Opponents say the grants amount to a moral endorsement of terrorism. Even America's pro-ecumenical Christian Century editorialized that because the welfare grants merely free funds for war use, those backing the armed struggle in Rhodesia should be candid about their role as "vicarious doers of violence...
...Carnegie Council on Policy Studies in Higher Education. "Teachers are only just beginning to realize that there is a tremendous pool of buying power among students for electives." Of course there is nothing new in students evaluating their professors. Harvard and Yale undergraduates have for years published devastatingly candid brochures designed to help freshmen choose courses. But the temptation to ingratiate themselves with students by offering "guts"?courses with a reputation for easy grades?or resorting to informal rap sessions becomes difficult to resist when the alternative is empty classrooms...
...misunderstanding later about what was said and who meant what. We hope we can avoid a repeat of this by channeling all direct contact through Carter." One problem is that while Carter is fond of Sadat, he does not much like Begin, whom, he feels, has been less than candid...