Word: fresh
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...Jimmy Carter has had little cause for complaint about press coverage. His fresh style, his often puzzling but engaging personality, his numerous initiatives-from energy to the Panama Canal treaty-have been massively and on the whole favorably reported. The first major negative story about the Carter Administration has been Bert Lance. At first not only members of the White House but other Americans felt that the press might be too hard on the embattled director of the Office of Management and Budget. But by now, congressional and Government investigators, following the reporters, are demonstrating the seriousness of the case...
Saying phooey on the polls, the voters turn to fresh faces...
...sought their party's nomination this year. Voters last week confounded conventional wisdom and the pollsters by turning out in record numbers, rejecting both Incumbent Mayor Abe Beame and his ostensibly strongest challenger, Bella Abzug. In the process, the Democrats plucked from a cast of seven hopefuls two fresh faces: Congressman Edward Koch and New York Secretary of State Mario Cuomo. They must still battle through a runoff next week for the nomination, but it is virtually certain that one of them will emerge from November's general election as New York's 105th mayor...
...head fund-raiser for the new athletic complex, he gets along with the athletes and, more importantly, the money that keeps the department in business. But predictably, neither Reardon nor Bok will say anything to the press; the newspaper leaks that torpedoed Peck's chances are apparently fresh in both their minds...
...book is getting attention, nonetheless, because Lasky is correct in some of his major contentions. However, it is deplored by many students of the presidency because it gives major emphasis to minor episodes of wrongdoing, repeats unproved charges without offering fresh evidence and, in the end, lets Nixon almost totally off the hook...