Word: electable
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...play information from the shuttle in a format that is easiest for the ground controller to read," he said. If either the shuttle or the fuel tanks go astray and threaten to land in populated areas, "my display will light up and warn the controllers" who may then elect to destroy them, he added...
...would have had people in his hip pocket. Now some of the hard-core Right-to-Lifers, many of whom were once liberal, are much more open to conservatism." Weyrich believes that opposition to abortion has had the greatest impact of any social issue in helping to elect conservative Republicans. "It can get at the voters who are the Achilles' heel of the liberal Democrats, the urban ethnics." Weyrich works closely with Paul Brown, head of the Life Amendment Political Action Committee (LAPAC) and his wife Judie Brown of the American Life Lobby. This coalition is allied with evangelical...
...Concluding that he could not win enough support to the Republican nomination he dropped the idea and accepted Harry Gray's offer of the presidency of United Technologies Corp. His salary and bonus totalled $1 million. Haig had been at United Technologies not quite a year when President-elect Reagan called him to be Secretary of State...
This policy began to evolve in December, when Richard Allen and Jeane Kirkpatrick, two Reagan advisers with a keen interest in Latin America, told the President-elect that El Salvador would likely be his first testing ground...
...were a young team this year so we had a hard time getting started and developed a winning attitude." Watson said yesterday. However, the captain-elect called himself "pretty optimistic" that next year's squad will produce the first winning record in four seasons. "Most of the better players are returning, and the momentum we developed during the second half of the season should carry over to next year," he noted...