Word: levered
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...Democrats' nomination of Geraldine Ferraro for Vice President. But the presence of a woman on a major party's national ticket for the first time did not widen the gender gap. Polls of people leaving the voting booths indicated that some 54% of female voters pulled the lever for Reagan. That did not quite match the Republican's crushing 62% support among male voters. But it indicated that if the election had been conducted solely among women, Reagan would still have...
...Religious Right, the Democratic candidate began to make Falwell a standard item in his campaign repertory. Now Mondale bangs away at Falwell's boast that in a second Reagan term "we will get at least two more appointments to the Supreme Court." Says Mondale: "If you pull their lever, you'll be handing over the Supreme Court to Jerry Falwell, who wants to run the most private questions of your life...
...industry and its unions. This would be similar to a plan worked out by the Reagan Administration in 1981 that put limits on the number of cars Japanese manufacturers shipped to the U.S. In steel, as in cars, the threat of more restrictive measures by Congress will be a lever in the hands of U.S. negotiators. Washington could also threaten to block foreign access to the U.S. market if the other countries do not go along with lower steel exports...
Shannon has been among the strongest opponents to Reaganomics in the House, resisting the flow of Democrats votes to the Republican side in the passage of Reagan's 1981 budget and massive three-year tax cut. Voting in Congress, of course, is more than the pulling of a lever, and we think Shannon, an instant protegee of Speaker of the House Rep. Thomas P. (Tip) O'Neill (D-Cambridge), will prove that he is more than a litmus-test liberal...
Shannon has been among the strongest opponents to Reaganomics in the House, resisting the flow of Democrats votes to the Republican side in the passage of Reagan's 1981 budget and massive three-year tax cut. Voting in Congress, of course, is more than the pulling of a lever, and we think Shannon, an instant protegee of Speaker of the House Rep. Thomas P. (Tip) O'Neill (D-Cambridge), will prove that he is more than a litmus-test liberal...