Word: merely
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...recommend how Presidents should go about getting the right people to serve and stay. Lyndon Johnson's senior appointees hung around only 2.8 years on the average. The Reagan average is down to two years. One-third of all the senior appointees of the past 20 years served a mere 1.5 years or less. Even a casual observer must ask just what they had in mind -- really helping the country, or making important contacts in their search for big quick bucks on the outside...
Caucus winner Senator Robert Dole and Vice President George Bush had thought 1988 would be a two-man race. But Robertson's Iowa result boosts him into the front of the pack by demonstrating that his victories in Michigan and Hawaii were not mere flukes...
Dukakis' grasp on 21 percent of the Iowa vote may come to be viewed as proof that he is not merely a regional candidate--if his campaign can put enough spin on the results. In addition to leading in the East, Dukakis at times vied for the lead in Iowa with the Midwestern candidates, Gephardt and Sen. Paul Simon (D.-III.). A month ago, however, instead of waging a full scale campaign in a caucus vote he might not have won, Dukakis started to portray the vote as a mere prelude to New Hampshire. His campaign billed the winner...
...issues as defense and education reform, programmatic foreign policy, and national service has been demonstrated consistently at his every appearance. Mr. Brazaitis has not noticed this, instead ranting something about "Jesus Christ Super Stud," "hard wood" and "Chinese water torture." I realize it may be arrogant for me, a mere campaign worker, to criticize a newspaper-man's use of such unintelligible images and lame Johnny Carson-style jokes in the place of actual political discourse; nevertheless, this is truly execrable stuff...
There is nothing wrong with such a calculation. Appeasement from lack of will is a disgrace. But appeasement from lack of power is mere prudence. It is no slur on the President of Costa Rica to suggest that he is pursuing his nation's interest. What is curious is the idea widespread in Congress that it is illegitimate, a breach of good neighborliness, for the U.S. to do the same...