Word: joining
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...vote in the South, for example: Did it say that the Republican Party, born to free the blacks, has been accepted there as the guardian of the whites? If so, then a major step in the realignment of U.S. politics has taken place. In the suburbs, did homeowners decisively join in Reagan's victory, or did they split, by ethnic origins, to give a significant share to Mondale? Did working-class Catholics sway to their church's leadership-or to their union leaders...
Issues of substance lie on the table of presidential action. Ronald Reagan had a neat, three-sided diagram of the future in his first election: to reduce inflation, re-establish U.S. defense and balance the budget. But the triangle would not join, and through the gap in its apex, there ballooned a budget deficit of terrifying dimensions. His first stated order of business is to face that problem with sweeping tax revision. One of Reagan's greatest achievements in his first term was to bring into being a bipartisan commission that finally put Social Security on firm footing...
...deal's going to be all over the papers?" Ferraro asks). She is considering writing a book about her unique campaign experience. Such a work could prove both illuminating and profitable. She can expect to command large fees for speeches (perhaps $10,000, an aide estimates). She may join a high-paying law firm. But if her husband were to be indicted, concedes one close aide, "it would be a heavy blow to her career. If he were convicted, it could well be fatal...
This is Weiss's key point. Man is a brute and he always will be; his ideological fervor is only inspired by latent lust and violence. As Sade himself quips, "People join revolutions when the adrenaline builds up." The radical soapbox priest, Jacques Roux, is played by a vociferous, apoplectic inmate (Kristen Gasser) who is restrained by a gag. Aroused by Corday's ghoulish description of a beheading she witnessed in Paris, the patients play at guillotining each other, tossing about a large red ball--a dismembered head--and tittering like demons...
Thousands of Yale students and hundreds of faculty members will join picket lines and hold pro-settlement rallies in lieu of attending and leading classes as a three-day moratorium on the use of university facilities gets under way today...