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Mondale is in this jam because he has never been able to separate himself from the cliche his critics have created about him--the special interests mongerer. He was created as an embodiment of the party platform; everybody has a plank, and everybody gets what he wants. Mondale believes that he can win the election by adding up minority groups and pandering ad nauseam to women's groups. It won him a party nomination, but he earned it with only percent of the primary vote--compared to 36 percent for Sen. Gary W. Hart (D-Colo.)--which makes...

Author: By Michael W. Hirschorn, | Title: An Embarrassment | 7/9/1984 | See Source »

...with Burt to prepare a memo from the White House in early March 1982 that ordered the various agencies to close ranks behind a START proposal by May 1. The purpose of the deadline, remarked McFarlane, was to set off "an explosive charge that will blast apart the log jam in the bureaucracy...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Battling the Gods of War | 6/25/1984 | See Source »

...rushed into the middle of the snarled intersection. Ignoring honks, raised fists and remarks far ruder than her own, she demanded that this car back up, that one turn right. One driver recognized her and yelled, "You tell 'em, Gerri!" Slowly the traffic jam cleared. The Congresswoman from Queens was back on schedule, racing to a Knights of Columbus testimonial dinner...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: The Rising Star from Queens | 6/4/1984 | See Source »

...team's four starting pitchers and its ace reliever also wore mortarboards June 9, 1983. It looked like this year's squad was in a jam. It wasn...

Author: By Mike Knobler, | Title: Baseball Wins Pair To Clinch League Title | 5/10/1984 | See Source »

...labor through a central unit, the work will be divided among many data processing units. The departure from the "von Neumann architecture," named for its founder, will enable programmers to avoid a "bottleneck." The rewards could be substantial since the "von Neumann bottleneck" has served as a traffic jam which severely restricts the flow of information through the one processor...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: The Race for The Ultimate Supercomputer | 4/27/1984 | See Source »

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