Word: gets
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...think taking time off from Harvard is good in the respect that you can see how the real world functions," Eichner says. "You get a chance to deal with a more human side of life instead of just working within the tight narrow framework formed by studies and sports...
...amounting to welfare for the rich, a federally-sponsored recession, social service cutbacks, court attacks on affirmative action, rollbacks of hard-won gains in abortion rights and labor law reform. Most of all, the Right expects that the growing public distrust of Big Government and demands for Washington to get its nose out of other people's business will allow the corporations to step into the vacuum and reassert control in a way undreamed of since the days of Warren Harding...
...populist rhetoric, because he can't lead a bee to honey, let alone a horse to water. Brown is different, because he's got the vibes, he's attuned to the cosmos, he knows where the flow is going--and is paddling upstream as fast as possible to get out in front and make it look as if he's leading the currents...
...born. Why is Kennedy, who bills himself the last hope of the liberals, backing it? If you want to be President you have to appeal to the center and the right--and being tough on crime is one time-tested way. And so what if a few civil liberties get trampled...
Kennedy assumes he will get the support of the left in 1980. After all, who else can the left go for? So he has already begun creeping towards the political center, talking about anti-inflationary crusading and the need for good old American free market competition in many industries. He's even selling his national health program as a privately insured system, a chance for financial corporations to profit from the sufferings of the old and diseased...