Word: habits
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...HABIT both political parties have of making loud, frightening noises whenever the other makes a move has stymied reform so far Liberals like to call Social Security the "third rail" of politics, because to touch it is to die. When Reagan asked for a lame-duck session of Congress to consider the Social Security problem, for example. Tip O'Neill and Ted Kennedy scored quick points by accusing Reagan of a "secret plan" to cripple Social Security...
...police while reaching into their pockets for identification, or, in one case, a Bible. Arrest situations are tense affairs: officers have accidentally shot each other in moments of confusion. But incidents like the Melvin killing will only repeat themselves if, as Sliwa hopes, we all get into the habit of automatically labelling "them" as "punks...
...Jesse Helms (R-N-C.) to an unusual position of power on Capitol Hill. An uncompromising far-right polemicist, Helms was given an unanticipated opportunity to peddle his extreme views on abortion, school prayer, and busing. His tirades against anyone left of the conservative hard line, along with his habit of harassing the White House over any displays of moderation, have earned the senior senator from North Carolina a reputation for fearless advocacy--dangerous to anyone who crosses his path...
...HISTORIANS WHO MAKE a habit of ranking American Presidents are not going to treat Jimmy Carter well. Under the Georgian's stewardship, the U.S. economy went to pot, the nation's self esteem was punctured by repeated humiliations abroad, and--for the first time since George Washington romped on General Cornwallis at Yorktown--the world laughed at America...
Most of us are wrong sometimes; Mr. Kenyatta makes a habit of it. Michael Dorniag's article remarks, for example, that Mr. Kenyatta "says the liberal civil rights establishment--and he counts [Julius] Chambers and [Jack] Greenberg among its members--is pushing busing policies on Whites and Blacks that neither of them want." First, it is incorrect that most adult Blacks oppose busing, but it is correct that most Whites do. A Gallup survey in 1980 found 82 percent of Whites opposed to busing, but 67 percent of Blacks favored busing. But data on Whites who experienced busing show...