Word: mainstream
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...desperation. It was a double sin inasmuch as it didn't work." Concluding that "the nomination contest is for all practical purposes over," he said he would support Ford, who had assured him that he would name a vice-presidential candidate who is "philosophically compatible with the mainstream of the Republican Party." Reed probably carries enough clout to make the difference in Mississippi...
...times, when Australian prime ministers were willing to be dominated first by Britain and then by the United States. A great believer in America's original goals in Vietnam, Fraser will be a close friend of any rigid Republican administration. (He is so pro-American that anti-mainstream columnist Alexander Cockburn claimed last year that Fraser arrived in power through a CIA-sponsored coup...
...position papers and interviews, the Democratic front runner has expounded his ideas on all of the major, and some of the minor, questions of economic policy: jobs, prices, taxes, energy, even regulation of the trucking industry. No one who pays attention can miss his general drift: Carter is a mainstream Democrat, who offers primarily an updated version of the economic policies of the Kennedy and Johnson Administrations. His keynote: a major effort to reduce unemployment, principally by Government stimulation of the private economy...
...inerrancy" of the Bible remains a common article of faith, the Baptists frown on the emotional phenomena known as the charismatic movement. In the past year, six churches in Texas, Ohio and Louisiana were "disfellowshipped" by their local associations for supporting faith healing and glossolalia (speaking in tongues). "The mainstream of Baptist belief is not in sympathy with the tongues movement," growls President Weber, but true to Baptist principles of local autonomy, the disfellowshipping had no practical effect on the offending churches...
...listening. At every concert Silly Love Songs gets the same amuck reception as Yesterday or any of the other five Beatles tunes McCartney performs during the course of the evening. Sometimes even bigger. Like much of McCartney's recent work, the song slips neatly, without fuss, into the mainstream...