Word: handicapping
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...career in American politics was a drama marked by breathtaking climbs to what he often called the "mountain-top," followed by precipitous plunges to the depths. Not many of his fellow citizens loved nun. Many respected and admired him. Perhaps just as many hated him. He labored under the handicap of being mysterious without being fascinating. His supporters saw him as shrewd enough to win elections and capable enough to run an efficient centrist-conservative Administration that would save the country from radical or liberal excess. To his enemies, he was devious and dangerous, a man without principle, a hungry...
...will quickly discover that Gerald Ford's limitations, which seem pretty clear, are not going to seem so horrendous. To be sure, it is a handicap that Ford was not elected to the presidency. He is unprepared for the office with respect to administrative experience; that certainly is a handicap. But he will triumph because he has not lusted after the office of President. Ford is an honest man. He gets on well with the people. He is an open man, and what our society needs now is openness. Artfulness got Lyndon Johnson in trouble abroad; artfulness got Nixon...
...court, of course, can be difficult to handicap on a given case. Despite the predictions of experts, despite the hints expressed in last week's hearing, no one could be completely certain how any of the eight Justices would fall. Yet each Justice has a record that law professors and others continually consult in trying to assess how he may rule in a specific case. TIME Correspondent David Beckwith, a lawyer himself, has surveyed such experts and offered this shorthand guide to the eight Justices as they forge their portentous decision...
Hall said that Rouillard has "exceeded our expectation" in the reorganization he has done. "As we watched him developing we came to the conclusion we should not handicap him with the term 'acting' anymore," he said...
...wife Cornelia's uncle, former Governor James E. ("Kissin' Jim") Folsom, 65, to win the Democratic nomination for an unprecedented third four-year term. The paralysis that has confined Wallace to a wheelchair since the attempt on his life two years ago was apparently no political handicap: he got more than 65% of the vote, the biggest sweep in an Alabama primary since 1920. He carried 66 of the state's 67 counties and received surprisingly strong support from blacks, whom he seriously courted for the first time in his political career. He is still coy about...