Word: diehardism
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...little heed to the attacks when they went to the polls. Mondale won Tennessee by a comfortable 42% to 30%, and took 30 delegates to Hart's 20. It was a case of Mondale's superior organization turning out the vote in a state where only diehard Democrats, and not all of them, bothered to enter the voting booths. The 399,383 who cast ballots constituted just 16.5% of Tennessee's voters (who are not registered by party). Lamented Hart's state campaign chairman, Will Cheek: "We gave a primary and nobody came." Well, not exactly...
...argue that divestiture activists should tone down their rhetoric because they're hurting President Bok's feelings. After all, he is a grown-up, and used to being dumped on by everyone from A. Bartlett Giamatti and John "Harvard Hates America" LeBoutillier '76 to the most diehard would-be Marxist revolutionary...
Rosen says he sees a "dichotomy among the current researchers, between the diehard hippies and the more lavish travelers...
...regime has done little to eliminate corruption, repression or inertia, and has in fact given rise to some new problems. The swelling of riches in a few areas has made for inequity and envy. The open door has admitted a host of unhealthy and unwanted foreign influences. Many diehard Maoists, still entrenched in the bureaucracy or established in the military, have managed to resist, and even reverse, the new direction. Though China has, at last count, 1.1 billion people, its G.N.P. is less than half that of France (pop. 55 million). Above all, in its attempt to balance freedom with...
...project's $310 million capital costs, thanks in large measure to the lobbying efforts of Neil Goldschmidt, former Portland mayor and Secretary of Transportation under President Carter. Despite Washington's munificence, Portland, with an unpopular mass-transit tax on employers and a noisy constituency of diehard automobile fans, has taken pains to economize: once they leave downtown, the trains will speed along an existing right-of-way parallel to the humming Banfield Freeway...