Word: consensuses
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...eternal second banana, the man thought too timid to sculpt his own political persona, the patrician who ran a pallid third in last month's Iowa caucuses and staggered into New Hampshire facing extinction, the bland campaigner who ended one debate by apologizing for his lack of eloquence -- this consensus choice as political nebbish suddenly transformed himself into the prim reaper who could not be denied. Bush last week harvested victories from Massachusetts and Rhode Island to Oklahoma and Texas. His weakest rival, Jack Kemp, promptly quit the Republican contest. Pat Robertson, another ostensible threat on Bush's right flank...
...important to watch what happens in elections at the county level, all over the nation. The impact of this election is going to be felt in the elections of 1990, when the census is taken, and in 1991, when reapportionment takes place." He wants to build from the consensus established to defeat Bork: "There were fears about letting new people into the process, whether we could handle all these women, or 18-year-olds, or blacks, or homosexuals. But they have all proved to be just as American as earlier voters. We have to redefine 'we.' " Inclusively...
...fealty to segregation and then against the Viet Nam War, and he had lost his seat because of those stands. "His father's defeat was very traumatic to him," says his mother Pauline. It reaffirmed in the son an innate cautiousness and taught him the virtues of moderation, compromise, consensus...
...going to work out with the Astros," he says. "I was going to show 'em my behind-the-back catch." When business is done, Bush leans back and reflects on his organization. "Nobody is in absolute charge of anything, everybody works together and knows they have to get a consensus. If there's a problem between people, I straighten it out. I guess a business school | wouldn't design it that way, but my standard is: Does it work or not? It works...
...that the nation itself has grown diminished. The Old Testament, that thunderous text inhabited by nothing less than the gravitas of God, recorded, "There were giants in the earth in those days." Americans now alive remember Franklin Roosevelt, Harry Truman, Dwight Eisenhower, John Kennedy -- not all giants in any consensus but men of weight and consequence. But history is full of optical illusions...