Word: drifting
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...arrested for assault, carrying concealed we and disorderly conduct. 'He became an Evangelical Christian, then a Nazi finally, a Ku Klux Klansman. At one point he told friends that he was going to join Ian Smith's Rhodesian army. Instead Joseph Paul Franklin, now 30, continued to drift from state to state, driven by twin passions: his love of rifles and his hatred of blacks...
Although there is a small drift to ward Carter, the race quite clearly is virtually even. The key variable may be the degree of turnout among the sup porters of the two candidates, which the Yankelovich survey makes no attempt to predict. But the poll did ask whether voters were looking forward to Election Day or whether they wished they did not have to make any choice at all. Thirty percent say they would rather avoid making a selection. That figure, moreover, rises to 55% among the undecided, the very group now tending toward President Carter. What is more, fully...
...first glance, a comparison might seem to show a Republican drift. In September, the Reagan camp counted states with 130 electoral votes as strong for their candidate; now they tally states with 145 votes. Initially, Carterites figured states with 98 electoral votes strong for Carter; now they claim only...
Kennedy had every reason to be dispirited. But he had long contended that his sole reason for continuing the futile challenge to the President was to check what he saw as his party's drift toward conservative economic policies and away from its liberal social values. The Senator wanted one last fight over the economic planks in the party platform?and one last word in the debate about them...
...Muskie reacted sharply to both the U.N. resolution and the Knesset vote. The General Assembly's action, he told the House Foreign Affairs Committee, amounted to nothing less than mischief making, while the Jerusalem bill was "a diversionary tactic." Privately, Administration officials were even more concerned about the drift of events because the provocations and counterprovocations, which to some extent seemed to be outside the control of the participants, raised serious questions about the durability of the U.S. Middle East peace policy in the national-election hiatus. U.S. policymakers have to wonder whether the U.S. can afford to stand...