Word: comparison
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...debates were a mistake. Instead of giving the voters a basis for substantive comparison, they have made imagery and theatrics more important than issues. Ford's blooper will be recalled long after Carter's non-responses have faded from memory. Vague sermons on morality will never stop a war. The naive desire to bring heaven to earth through federal spending will bring catastrophe instead...
...Comfort, a gerontologist and author of two previous books on aging, the chief disability of old age is agism itself. "Most of the handicaps of oldness in our society are social, conventional and imaginary. The physical changes are trifling by comparison." Because of "redneck bigotry" and "the steady drip of misinformation," the elderly are patronized, overmedicated and arbitrarily excluded from any significant social roles...
...applause for Massachusetts totals paled by comparison to the crowd's reaction to close Carter victories in Pennsylvania, Louisiana, and New York...
...ripe age of 70. With a tam-o-shanter upon his head as a trademark, the college president travels the state with a bizarre campaign style that features frequent expressions of disinterest about a wide variety of issues. Tunney's bland, Eastern style--including a Kennedyesque accent--palls in comparison with his opponent's. Hayakawa has captured the electorate's imagination, but it is highly questionable if he can capture enough of their votes to unseat Runney...
Such new problems and old wounds provide an opportunity for an upset by Representative Alan Steelman, Bentsen's GOP challenger. However, Steelman has problems of his own. His voting record in the House stands out as quite moderate in comparison to his fellow Republicans in the state delegation. He has complicated matters by attacking Bentsen from the left by support the Equal Rights Amendment and liberalized abortion laws, and from the right, by favoring state right-to-work laws and opposing oil company divestiture. This tactic has in effect reproduced Bentsen's problem of fracturing the electorate...