Word: mainstream
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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After being sent to a farm and a factory as part of the government's attempts to induct youth into mainstream Chinese life, Xueliang began his studies in philosophy and sociology in China and in 1984 came to study at Harvard...
...remarks intended to rebut Bush's charges of liberalism, the Massachusetts governor said: "We heard a lot of talk last night from Mr. Bush about the mainstream. But it's clear that he's willing to leave American families high...
David R. Ackley '91, the assistant youth coordinator for Students for Bush in Massachusetts, said that while Dukakis was at times "pretty evasive," Bush had "clarified the difference between the left wing and America's political mainstream...
...voters. "Hey, this guy is one of us," they started to say. That is, until Bush began to suggest that Dukakis was not "one of us" precisely because he was too tied to his immigrant roots, as well as too tied to a liberal-academic ideology outside the political mainstream. Result? Dukakis has been much quieter on his immigrant background and ACLU membership...
...been doing lately on the campaign trail has been an attempt to counter the I'm-more-of-a-populist attacks Bush has levelled against him. This includes everything from trying to list all the other states that have prison furlough systems ("I'm not outside the American political mainstream") to riding around in an M-1 tank...