Word: fervent
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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Last Friday, Baker gathered up notes on the week's doings that he had scribbled with his trusty felt-tipped pen, and he walked over to update his boss in the Oval Office. It is also one of Baker's fervent goals to help Reagan go out with dignity and glory. It is not strange at all that such a finale for the President would be about the best thing to happen to George Bush...
...administration regards illegal foreign acts important only if they are committed by a communist government. Three, the administration approves of the system of apartheid. Any one of these conclusions is readily believeable, but not one of them is excusable. It is inconceivable that an administration that claims such a fervent commitment to the principles of freedom and democracy on the one hand could issue a mere slap on the wrist to a government that tortures schoolchildren...
...ticket, a contender had to show broad-based appeal to a variety of bosses and tribal groups. But these days the process is so long and so many people run that it rewards those who can arouse the sectarian resentments or cater to the particular demands of fervent factions, notes Political Scientist Nelson Polsby...
Without Reagan to subsume them all into one fold, Republicans show signs of splintering into four of their old tribes: the country-club and Wall Street establishment, the Main Street heartland conservatives, the Religious Right and the fervent disciples of supply side. Reagan in 1984 could be claimed "one of us" by all of these groups. But this time, each has its own standard-bearer: Bush, Dole, Robertson or Kemp...
...charismatic Christian who uses fervent congregations as political beachheads, just as Jesse Jackson employs black churches, Robertson nonetheless has failed to unite even his own religious family. Likely Republican voters who describe themselves as Evangelical or Fundamentalist Christians divide 44% for Bush, 30% for Dole and only 14% for Robertson. Jackson attracts overwhelming support from blacks, churchly and secular, because his message is that of economic populism. Moralism dominates Robertson's pitch, even though he now avoids mentioning his long membership in the Baptist ministry...