Word: constant
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...drives, cast thousands of pocketbook votes for Carter, helping him sweep the state. Said Margaret McKenna, Carter's campaign chairman in Rhode Island: "The turnout was big because the people feared that another term for Ford would have been disastrous for the state. The economy has been in constant decline in Rhode Island, and Ford was blamed for it." Carter also took some 56% of the Irish and about 55% of the Eastern European vote. But Mike Sotiros, a director of the Ford campaign in New York State, feels that Carter's barrage of references to Ford...
...Dump Johnson" movement in protest against the Viet Nam War in 1968 but lost his seat in 1970?and has been losing ever since. He was defeated by the same man who beat him in 1974: Republican John Wydler, 52, who described Lowenstein as "an ultralibeal, a constant loser and a notorious carpetbagger." Another comeback effort fell short in North Carolina, where former National League Pitcher Wilmer ("Vinegar Bend") Mizell, 45, a Republican Congressman from 1968 to 1974, was defeated again by Democrat Stephen L. Neal, 42, an heir to the R.J. Reynolds tobacco fortune...
...seen much more clearly the dual interest of people who live in this country but still have a very strong affinity for their family home in Poland or Czechoslovakia, Israel or Africa. So, I think in the process of campaigning, I've learned about my own needs for constant study and for the assimilation of other people's ideas...
...suggested stamina and youth as helpful qualities. "Younger leaders are readier to venture in the dark. They haven't had their teeth knocked out as yet, and they are ready to take chances." Washington Lawyer Lewis Engman, 40, head of the Federal Trade Commission under Nixon, agreed: "One constant is the willingness to take risks, to row the boat out beyond the shore without the assurance that you will be able to get back...
...suave, eloquent, literate, an instinctive politician in a key military post. Both men belong to the same generation of Israelis who grew up with the Jewish state's struggle for survival-and yet, even though they are members of the same Cabinet, they are locked in a constant, fratricidal battle. In fact, the rivalry between Premier Yitzhak Rabin, 54, and Defense Minister Shimon Peres, 53, has become so intense that practically every issue in Israel's hothouse politics polarizes into a struggle between their competing factions. Israel's national elections are still one year away, but Peres...