Word: mold
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...this will only happen if we accept neoliberalism now and mold into something that we can live with...
Ultimately, however, Shamie's fate rests in the hands of his mentor and ally Ronald Reagan. Because Shamie has cast himself in the Reagan mold, his candidacy, more than most, will depend on whether Massachusetts Voters are comfortable with the President...
...rebuttals, and the candidates questioning each other; another could be a debate along present lines; the third and fourth might be modeled on Polsby's extended conversations. In some form, debates probably will and certainly should continue; the task is to prevent them from freezing into a mold that satisfies no one except the winner. -By George J. Church...
...dozen years ago, Republican Senator Charles Percy of Illinois seemed an ideal presidential prospect. Gifted with patrician good looks and a rich, sonorous voice, Percy, by the end of his first Senate term in 1972, had earned a solid reputation as an independent-minded Republican in the progressive Rockefeller mold. But his star soon stopped soaring. A stodgy campaigner, he made a tentative presidential bid in 1976 and nearly lost his 1978 Senate race to a little-known Democrat, Attorney Alex Seith. Trying to keep pace with America's growing conservatism, Percy changed his stands on economic issues, foreign...
...court lacks "a great articulator" in the mold of Holmes or Louis Brandeis, says Federal Judge Simon Rifkind. Burger has not emerged as a strong voice. Courtly and white-maned, almost regal in appearance, he seems more comfortable with his ceremonial and administrative duties than at deciding cases. At the court's weekly conferences, he sometimes strikes other Justices as ill prepared and indecisive. When Burger changed his vote repeatedly in one case, Justice Byron White reportedly threw down his pencil and declared, "Jesus Christ, here we go again...