Word: let
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...widely considered a breach of democratic etiquette to question the collective wisdom of the electorate. To suggest that the voters are wrong, let alone to characterize their error in more melodramatic terms, opens you up to charges of elitism. The contention that people have been misled or manipulated, wrote one smug supporter of the probable winner shortly before the election, "reveals an extraordinary contempt for the political intelligence of the public...
...terms. Reports of the candidates' strategies for appealing to various groups or regions of the country will be replaced by theories about what an undifferentiated mass called "the people" was trying to say. These theories will often be of such exotic sophistication that no single one of the people, let alone all of the people, could possibly have thought of them before voting...
...indictment, Marcos sent an emotional letter to the President, asking him to call off the prosecutors. "Reagan has known Marcos personally," said a White House aide. "There's a lot of sentiment there. But he didn't want to let personal feelings overrule in this case." After an evening consultation with Thornburgh and other advisers, the President wrote back to Marcos to say he would not intervene...
...doing more original reporting and refusing to let the campaigns set the daily agenda for their newscasts, they could force the candidates to come out of their cocoons. Then perhaps viewers would witness a return to the bygone days when reporters and editors were the ones who picked the sound bites...
...stop are the honest ones." Moreover, supporters insist, many chases end in the capture and arrest of serious criminals. Asks Donald Schroeder, adjunct professor at John Jay College of Criminal Justice in Manhattan: "If it were the Son of Sam in the car that you were chasing, would you let him get away...