Word: mainstream
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...margin, Tarheel State Republicans chose Congressman James Broyhill, a mainstream conservative, over the N.C.C.'s man, former Ambassador to Rumania David Funderbunk, to run for the Senate seat vacated by another Helms protege, retiring Senator John East. Broyhill promptly announced that he would wage his campaign without the help of Helms' organization, thank you very much. The continuing bitterness in G.O.P. ranks brought smiles to Democrat Terry Sanford, 68, a onetime North Carolina Governor, who, in a crowded field of ten candidates, won his party's Senate nomination with 60% of the vote...
...firm grounding, Tokyo needs young design talent to strike out on new paths off the main road that Miyake and the others are still exploring. Too many of the Tokyo shows were, indeed, numbing attempts to run fancy numbers on mainstream fashion, but there is a group of young designers, like Kensho Abe and Atsuro Tayama, who are coming on strong, and others who have already made an indelible impression. Four...
...Bush-Kemp duel in Michigan, as elsewhere, exemplifies the clash of cultures within the Republican Party. The Vice President's team consists primarily of mainstream moderates, country-club conservatives and most of the state party elite. Bush, who beat Ronald Reagan in Michigan's 1980 primary, never misses a chance to stress his ties to the popular President: "I was on the phone with the Situation Room this morning," he told supporters at several stops as he discussed the Soviet nuclear accident. Instead of propounding a personal vision for the future (dangerous for a Vice President at this stage...
...sexism proves that even Harvard society is a long way from recognizing the relevancy and urgency of feminist concerns. Not long ago the popular "Amos & Andy" radio and TV shows provided millions of Americans with "humor" derived from the humiliationm of Blacks. Such "humor" was considered perfectly acceptable in mainstream American society until very recently, and it would still be acceptable today, if it were not for the "militant paranoia" of civil rights activists. Why isn't the battle against sexism, in its many forms and varying degrees of violence, given the same respect and support as the battle against...
...world" was later delivered to Beirut newspapers. Qassam was slain by the British during a revolt in Palestine in 1936. His name has frequently been used by terrorist factions linked to Abu Nidal, whose real name is Sabry Khalil Bana and who officially broke away from Yasser Arafat's mainstream Fatah organization...