Word: electable
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...response to the forum's central question "What happens after ERA?" Dr. Sally Lunt, Vice-chairman for the National Women's Political Caucus, said her group "will be doing what it has been doing since 1971, helping elect feminists to political office" at all levels of government...
Marilee Dean Baker, president-elect of the AIAW and director of athletics at Princeton, told The Crimson yesterday that if Federal District Court in Washington, D.C., rules in favour of the NCAA, AIAW officials will be forced to dissolve their organization because of its inability to compete financially with the NCAA...
...ambitious that she would, just to take a random example, fabricate a story about a child heroin addict in hopes of tugging at a Pulitzer jury's heartstrings. Certainly she would not stoop to selling papers by retailing gossip about an incumbent President's bugging a President-elect's bedroom just before Inauguration. Indeed, throughout the film, as she reports each carefully leaked piece of information about Michael, thereby helping the feds to "squeeze" him into helping their cause, she behaves with perfect moral propriety. The trouble is that the standards by which she lives are inadequate...
Increasingly we elect, on the basis of powerful advertising campaigns, people who do not know how to do anything for anybody, whether it is having a street light installed or protecting a citizen against loss of liberty. Increasingly we elect people who are governed by their staffs, whom no one elects...
...when President-elect Reagan made a courtesy call at the White House, Carter told him that Saudi demands for an F-15 "enhancement" package and some kind of airborne reconnaissance system were matters that Reagan would have to deal with early in his Administration. Reaganauts later claimed that Carter had presented them with an all-but-completed deal. Interviewed by TIME last week, Brown insisted that no deal had been promised. Rather, Brown said, he wrote to the Saudi defense minister asserting that the Carter Administration had merely "recommended" the F-15 enhancement package to Reagan and stating that...