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...percent to 23 percent, with a full 33 percent of the electorate identified as independent. Eighteen to 24-year-old voters supported the President most enthusiastically, yet polling shows that younger voters remain the most liberal age group. Much of the Republican's current support can be characterized as limp, perhaps easily swayed...

Author: By Andrew S. Doctoroff, | Title: Taking the Liberal Out of the Democrat | 11/10/1984 | See Source »

...from July to September, Reagan's name increasingly carried more weight with the voters. Growing numbers of them who supported the nameless Democrat ironically declared that it's important to give Reagan the numbers he needs in Congress to push through his policies. Much of the electorate, then, is limp, easily swayed into joining the Republican camp when the President is mentioned...

Author: By Andrew S. Doctoroff, | Title: A House Divided Won't Be Won Over | 11/5/1984 | See Source »

Pummel your sword limp, useless...

Author: By Melissa I. Weissberg, | Title: What's the Message? | 10/24/1984 | See Source »

...smoke and taping their limbs in preparation for bouts to come. Some smear on baby oil to avoid abrasion from the ropes and canvas ring. "Bruiser" Frank Brody, mid-30s, preparing to wrestle, unclasps his black hair from a ponytail, douses it under a tap and lets it hang limp and long about his huge shoulders. "I might work ten or 15 days in a row," he says softly. "I try to save money, live quiet and plan for retirement," he adds. Well-known wrestlers like Brody earn anywhere from $50,000 to $100,000 traveling around...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: In Texas: Wrestling with Good and Evil | 10/22/1984 | See Source »

...refer to "a decade-long decline" in intelligence capacity. Reagan told Carter that he did not blame him for the embassy tragedy The flurry over Reagan's remark, came as Mondale and Ferraro were injecting some much needed spirit into wha has been a stumbling and limp Democratic campaign. At George Washington University, Mondale repeatedly drew cheers from some 1,500 students as he assailec the President's pre-election switch on foreign affairs. Mondale ticked off the contrasts: "The new Reagan praises international law. The old Reagan jumped bail from the World Court. The new Reagan criticizes...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: The Heat of the Kitchen | 10/8/1984 | See Source »

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