Word: mainstream
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...elected officials from all levels of government chartered by Party Chairman Paul Kirk, published what amounts to a midterm platform. Titled New Choices in a Changing America, it is crammed with sensible proposals of modest caliber. But its most striking feature is its emphasis on moderate and mainstream chords, like the importance of family values. Some of the phrases might have come from a Reagan speech. For example: ". . . the political arrogance that would have bureaucrats run our economy and dictate our daily lives." On some of the most critical issues, like reducing the federal deficit, the document offers platitudes rather...
Mathematics mixed with political science was "an extremely novel combination at the time," Shepsle says. "Twenty years later--well, I don't want to say it's mainstream, but it's certainly a respected tradition." And mixing math with government is certainly what Shepsle is good at. "Ken combines an interest in theoretical government with expert empirical hoking and poking around in real institutions. There are not very many people who do his sort of inductive analysis who have also spent time hanging around Congress interviewing people," says Robert H. Salisbury, chairman of Washington University's political science department...
...result reflects the narrow mindedness of the planners and the process they employed. Woefully out of touch with the student mainstream, Epps and his aides catered their affair to suit a Final Club social set and a favored few undergraduates...
...same day that University of Maryland basketball star Len Bias died from a cocaine over-dose, countless more Americans abused alcohol. Some of those people died, others brought about the deaths of others. By suggesting that substance abuse flourishes largely among a segment of the population outside the mainstream, Reagan arms himself with painlessly-acquired political capital, yet ultimately misrepresents the problem...
Ironically, Reagan's particular vision is a startlingly radical one for such a successful politician. Not surprisingly, though, Americans haven't bought it. Polls show time and time again that there are few issues of which it can be said mainstream Americans have moved measurably to the right. What Americans appreciate is leadership, and in a party or a President that means standing for something...