Word: hear
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...moderate voter once again, the Democratic party must deemphasize its goal of creating a better world; Americans are unwilling to sacrifice their own fortunes to solve national problems. Mondale was thrashed after his campaign of "decency." Words of pragmatism and responsibility serve only to alienate. The people want to hear more optimism and good cheer...
More than 1000-some of them sporting blue Carter-Mondale pins from 1980-packed a basketball court in this North Shore campus to hear the man Reagan and many Democrats have used as a whipping post for the failures...
...tepid enough to indicate that there is some regrettable truth to the remarks made by Peter Teeley, press secretary to Vice President George Bush, after his man debated Mondale Running Mate Geraldine Ferraro. Said Teeley: "You can say anything you want during a debate, and 80 million people hear it." If the press then points out an error, Teeley continued, "so what? Maybe 200 people read it, or 2,000 or 20,000." (Teeley hastened to add that Bush has not "purposely used misleading or incorrect figures...
...hear critics tell it, supply-side economics, and thus Reaganomics, originated in a faraway jungle where voodoo is in vogue. Supply-side theory, which emphasizes the importance of tax cuts in stimulating economic growth, actually sprang forth from leading universities like Columbia, and has been refined at several respected think tanks. One of these is the Manhattan Institute for Policy Research. Two of the institute's scholars, Charles Murray and George Gilder, have written new books that are already stirring as much comment and controversy as the original supply-side ideas...
Martin was hardly less appalled to hear that there are now etiquette camps where children learn practices like kissing hands. "That is just a perversion of the idea of etiquette," says Martin. "Hand kissing is not an American custom. It's incredibly pretentious for Americans to do it, and for toddlers to do it is unspeakable. I mean, this is just disgusting. These etiquette schools were done solely to teach snobbery, which is against everything I believe...