Word: electable
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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President Carter's poor record led to Ronald Reagan's victory last week, panelists at the Kennedy School Forum said last night, disagreeing about the degree to which an ideological shift to the right also sparked the president-elect's landslide...
...would a varsity team elect a captain who doesn't like to win? The answer is simple: In a sport that demands tremendous self-discipline, sacrifice, time, toughness, and a day-to-day confrontation with pain, Rogers embodies the qualities of a team player. She consistently performs best in relay races, or cross-country meets that need a good Rogers performance to produce a team victory...
...wrong with that? The President of the United States ought to be willing to spend that land of time. Anybody who walks in there thinking he can punch a time clock at 9 in the morning and leave at 5 has got another thought coming. We do not elect Presidents who want that kind of a life...
Capitalists support and benefit from managerial policies, Darity said, adding, "The capitalists, however, want a stronger role in society than the managers will give them. This last election may be seen as a class struggle between the managerial class and the capitalist class." President-elect Reagan will be "the last capitalist president the United States will ever have," he said...
Ruckelshaus, currently an environmental adviser to President-elect Ronald Reagan, told a crowd of 100 at the Kennedy School that Reagan's failure to discuss environmental issues adequately during the campaign will lessen his ability to improve the Clean Air Act, which comes up for amendment next year...