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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...member termed "total chaos," the President was hit by news that might ultimately prove even more damaging to his re-election chances. An ABC News-Louis Harris survey disclosed that the President's approval rating among Americans had fallen to 22%. No President has sunk lower in public esteem since such polling began in 1939. Even disgraced Richard Nixon had a 25% rating in the Harris poll shortly before resigning his office...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Nation: Carter Battles A Revolt | 8/11/1980 | See Source »

...none is more dazzling than her ability to display the inner world of her characters in a few lines of lucid, supple, periodic prose. In Grace and Caro, "a vein of instinct sanity opened and flowed: a warning that every lie must be redeemed in the end . . . In their esteem for dispassion they began to yearn, perverse and unknowing, towards some strength that would, in turn, disturb that equilibrium and sweep them to higher ground...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Books: Star-Crossed | 7/14/1980 | See Source »

Traditionally the Soviets have held lawyers in low esteem, which may be apt for a country in which laws were supposed to be necessary only during the transition to a self-governing society that would not require courts, prosecutors and police. But increasingly the Soviet authorities find themselves resorting to law to accomplish goals and deal with change...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Law: With Justice for (Almost) All | 6/23/1980 | See Source »

...compensation, prestige and political appreciation are important to the troops. Every unit in the U.S. ought to be visited twice a year by Congressmen and Senators who should talk to the troops on a person-to-person basis. It does a lot to increase the military's self-esteem and sense of worth...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Nation: Patriotism Is No Longer Enough | 6/9/1980 | See Source »

Says DeBakey: "Until society restores literacy to a position of esteem, there is no motivation for young people to learn to read and write." Aptly enough, she advises doctors to heed the words of Alexander Pope: "Words are like leaves; and where they most abound/ Much fruit of sense is rarely found...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Education: A Pox on Medicant | 5/19/1980 | See Source »

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