Word: electable
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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Brezhnev chose his forum carefully. For the past 20 years, Soviet party congresses have been held every five years, ostensibly to set goals and elect a new Central Committee. In theory, they are the party's supreme authority; in fact, they are carefully staged rites that ratify decisions already taken by the Soviet leadership. For weeks billboards had gone up all over Moscow exalting the party as THE MIND, HONOR AND CONSCIENCE OF OUR EPOCH and trumpeting GLORY TO THE HEROES OF LABOR. Food supplies in Moscow stores and restaurants improved, red banners waved along the main thoroughfares...
...lice which infest their ragged uniforms, to the diarrhea which attacks their bowels. They have established their own social hierarchy as new soldiers yield to crotchety veterans and all share a degree of good-ol-boy autonomy. They see their side as the "democratic army," in which the soldiers elect all of their officers except generals and orders drift down through the ranks only as vague suggestions...
...much of America. The New York Times pointed out, in one of the many editorial page responses that the speech provoked, that Burger touched a nerve with "an entire generation of citizens who dread the city streets and in their fear feel deprived of elementary rights." David Armstrong, president-elect of the National District Attorneys Association, praised the speech for "exposing the cracks in our system before they get worse and the system breaks apart...
...received an urgent call for a rematch. Now he was to impersonate Carter as Reagan rehearsed for the campaign's pivotal debate. Said Reagan, after that encounter: "I lost every practice debate with Stockman. After him, Anderson and Carter were a piece of cake." At Thanksgiving, the President-elect phoned to tell Stockman: "David, I've been looking for a way to get even. I think I'll send...
...discarded or retained. For three months, personnel director E. Pendleton James played keeper of the Book of Lists (and boxes of resumes), while a Council of Elders held intermittent Judgment Day caucuses. The result: a tiny trickle of cabinet appointments, announced by a press spokesman rather than the president-elect himself, in stark contrast to Richard M. Nixon's one-shot televised extravaganza and the rapid-fire selections of John F. Kennedy '40. Christopher C. DeMuth '64, lecturer in Public Policy at the Kennedy School of Government, who worked both on Nixon's transition and on Reagan's Environmental Protection...