Word: impacting
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...IMPACT of Reagan, the centrist drift of the Democratic Party, and the excitement generated by the showing of Blacks in major mayoral races make now the best time for this strategy. Reagan's policies have caused a new feeling of class consciousness among the working (and not working) classes: I overheard one Black teenager in a Fort Worth Dairy Queen ask another how it was going. The other replied, "Reaganomics...
...Conyers (D-Mich.), could also have run on the "rainbow platform"; but all decided not to. As for the possibility of a leftist coalition strategy led by a non-Black candidate, Alan Cranston lacks the strength with Blacks, Latinos, and progressive labor, while Gary Hart lacks the necessary political impact. By elimination and self-selection, Jackson emerged as the only viable candidate...
Hollings, who spent about an hour in front of the arena greeting delegates, predicted only that he would make a "good impact" here today, adding, even if he finishes at the bottom of the pack, he can make a comeback...
...Kentucky that women have had the most influential impact on state politics. Several years ago, whenever former Gov. Julian Carroll ventured out of the state, Lt. Gov. Thelma Stovall used the opportunity to exercise her rights as the acting governor, often to contrary purposes of the governor. In one instance, she vetoed the Kentucky legislature's recession of its ratification of the Equal Rights Amendment--an issue whose legality had to be decided in the courts. This year's gubernatorial election involves the current Democratic Lt. Gov. Martha Layne Collins; Jim Bunning, a Republican state legislator and former baseball pitcher...
...Phillips voiced optimism about the group's potential. "We're going to make an impact with the lesbian and gay vote in this town," she said...