Word: fighting
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...Reverend Jesse Jackson was cheered wildly by Democratic party activists when he called for continuing the fight for ERA, but most Americans don't seem to share that enthusiasm. Voters in Maine and liberal Vermont, the latest to consider referendums on the proposal, handed feminists two more defeats. Schlafly says Americans don't want to endorse what she calls the "hidden agenda" of ERA activists. If passed, the law will be used to mandate "taxpayer-funded abortions and gay rights," she said...
...also be working to keep Gov. Michael S. Dukakis out of the White House. Noting Dukakis' one-time support for prison furlough programs, Schlafly scoffs at the notion that the Duke can win by stressing competence and playing down ideology. "If he wants to fight on competence, I think he's going to come out the loser on that," she predicts...
...leadership in Boston. Neighborhood resistance to the integration of public projects in Irish South Boston is at least as intense as that in the New York suburb. Mayor Ray Flynn, who lives in Southie, began his political career in the mid-1970s as a community leader in the disastrous fight against school desegregation. But now Flynn is working with black and white community groups and federal officials to resolve rather than raise conflict. Last month two black families became the first in more than a decade to move into public housing in South Boston. Instead of protests designed to inflame...
...judge's fight for his $89,500-a-year job will now be decided in the Senate, where it will take a two-thirds vote to oust him. The politically astute Hastings will be arguing the case of his career. Already he is toning down his charges of racism and stressing instead his assertion of innocence and the issue of fairness. He may try to convince the Senators of his claim that the proceedings smack of double jeopardy. He can also be expected to underline the fact that the last federal judge to be removed by the Senate, Harry Claiborne...
...attached to a mind racing with ideas and a mouth that motors even faster. Bridges' Preston Tucker is a man in perpetual motion -- gesticulating, punching walls and embracing people, scampering down his assembly line in pursuit of the perfect car. Like many a Capra hero, he is sworn to fight the big boys who would crush his dream. And if they do . . . well, heck, he'll just dream...