Word: excepts
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...selection of a U.S. President is not unusual. Starting with Franklin Roosevelt, TIME'S sixth Man of the Year, every President except Gerald Ford has been designated, most often as President-elect, since almost by definition anyone who enters and wins a U.S. presidential election dominates the year's news. Ronald Reagan, Jimmy Carter and Franklin Roosevelt were all chosen in their election years; Lyndon Johnson in 1964 and Harry Truman in 1948 were both Presidents and Presidents-elect, since they had succeeded to the office through their predecessors' deaths. Johnson was named twice (again...
...have never thought of it so much as being formalized. But when one of these things takes place, we know from the past, the hopes of people worldwide are brought to a high level. And then if there is nothing accomplished except that you have had a meeting, and neither one of you has anything to say when you leave that meeting, there is a letdown. The letdown, the disappointment-I just don't think that is healthy or good. But you mentioned all the "strain." I have to say that I think there is less of a risk...
Most Americans speak of the Soviets as people they have never seen, except as figures occasionally spotted on television, but a good many are trying to remedy that state of mutual isolation. Some members of the United Church of Christ, for example, invited the Soviets to send a group of visitors on a tour of New England. Last April came a newspaper editor, a Russian Orthodox bishop, a scientist and six others, who stayed in rural homes and ate pot-luck dinners. "It was the first time many of these people had ever done anything like this," says Elizabeth Gardner...
Glenn's strategy has been to portray himself as an independent, forward-thinking centrist and paint Mondale as an oldfashioned, big-spending liberal who cannot say no to special-interest groups. But the voters, Democrats included, still find Glenn and Mondale almost indistinguishable politically, except that Mondale is seen as the more experienced leader (37% to 16%). The two rate about the same in "avoiding giving in to pressure from special-interest groups" and "going for the right solutions and not sticking to party positions." Neither is given high marks for "bringing new and fresh solutions...
Today the liberal internationalist center is without an economic base (what Big Business, for example, is for the Republicans), without institutional support (except for a wing of labor led by Lane Kirkland), and, now that Henry Jackson is gone, without leadership. With little to hold it together, it will likely fracture along existing political fault lines and disappear into the landscape: those most concerned with domestic policy returning to the Democrats, those most concerned with foreign policy casting their lot with the Republicans...