Word: defeats
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...inexorably south to north, east to west, and as a vaulting column of electoral votes for Reagan towering over a nearly invisible stack for Democratic Challenger Walter Mondale. Partisans on both sides were awestruck. "Embarrassing, just embarrassing," muttered Mondale's campaign manager, Robert Beckel. Democrat Nancy Dick, conceding defeat in her bid for a Senate seat from Colorado, lamented, "My loss is part of a national disaster that our party is suffering." In the Reagan camp, Pollster Richard Wirthlin crowed early in the evening, "If these numbers hold, it's not [just] a landslide. The whole mountain will...
Mondale bowed to overwhelming defeat with dignity and grace. After voting near his home in North Oaks, Minn., he traveled to St. Paul for dinner at the Radisson Plaza Hotel with his campaign staff. Said his press secretary, Maxine Isaacs: "It was not a weepy scene at all, just quiet." The Democratic challenger then secluded himself to write the concession speech he delivered to a sparse crowd of 1,000 at the St. Paul Civic Center. Over some shouts of "No!" Mondale, his face at times mournful but his voice steady, said Reagan "is our President, and we honor...
...Sandinista are smart enough to know that no conceivable they might amass could possibly defeat a U.S. invasion. And the majority opinion is correct in saying that the Reagan Administration knows that direct invasion will not achieve Central American freedom and stability along the lines desired by the original leaders of the Nicaraguan Revolution. Such as invasion would actually play into the hands of the Sandinistas by galvanizing support. The Sandinistas are fully aware of the constraints-from Congress, public opinion, and other nations-placed on Reagan, and they can safely dismiss the possibility of a general landing...
Everything in the current Democratic hand-wringing fits in nicely with a powerhouse Gary W. Hart candidacy in 1988, and the Democratic Party must use the freedom of utter defeat to build upon the neoliberal agenda the Colorado Senator set forth this spring. Those of us brought up on Mom, Apple Pie and the New Deal must lower our turned-up noses and realize that neoliberalism, whatever we think of it, will be part and parcel of the Democratic geist for years to come...
...cosmetic industry's ability to avoid effective regulation is for the most part due to its exceptionally strong lobbying power. This strength was visible last year when the industry's lobby persuaded Congress to defeat a bill calling for the banning of the Braize test, an illegitimate and inhumane method cosmetic companies use to test the toxicity of their products--injecting the product directly into the eyes of laboratory animals. It is safe to assume that this lobby is equally assertive on other questions of 'regulation and, apparently, equally effective. Without public pressure Congress is willing to "let the buyer...