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...Carter's Administration have not done more to speed their economic and social progress, are threatening to stay away from the polls. While most union leaders swung into line last week behind Carter, blue-collar workers packed Serb Hall in Milwaukee last March to greet Candidate Reagan and cheer his attacks on Big Government with shouts of "Give 'em hell, Ronnie...
...wafer, will it bleed?" Some churches have given up on teaching teenagers. Even in the lower grades, when children love storytelling and are at their most impressionable, Sunday school programs sometimes degenerate into weekend playpens whose inmates kill time filling in biblical coloring books. Offering "one cheer for the 200-year-old Sunday school," Church Historian Martin Marty describes the prevalent stereotype, parents who drop their children off for a "weekly spiritual pit stop...
Wherever the "Queen Mum" went during the monthlong birthday jubilee, which had its finale last week, crowds gathered to cheer her. Regent Street shops were awash in commemorative wares. Gifts-ranging from fishing tackle to a chiffon hat-poured into her residence, Clarence House...
...were having a hard time finding much support on the convention floor, their man stands to profit from every barrage Carter and Reagan level at each other. Many Americans will perceive Anderson as a moderate, and many on the left will examine his campaign closely and find much to cheer, both in style and substance. Anderson's vice-presidential choice, and even more importantly, his standing in the polls as election day approaches will determine how much support he gets from the Democratic left. Should he be close going into election day he may inherit the support of some disgruntled...
Still, the victory left little to cheer about. The indications were that the heated debate signaled an intensifying round of battles over Thatcher's unflinching dedication to her strict monetarist policies, following the doctrine of U.S. Economist Milton Friedman. She has rigidly controlled the money supply, doubled the value-added tax, cut benefits for striking workers, and slashed $20 billion in public spending for all manner of education, housing and municipal programs. Thatcher defends the brutal cuts on the grounds that she won the election with the candid promise that "things will get worse before they get better...