Word: offs
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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CLARK is extremely weak on other election issues, too. In one breath, he severely criticizes Trudeau for failing to control inflation, and in the next, promises to stimulate the economy. He has proposed a $2 billion income tax cut, which would almost certainly cause more inflation. He relies heavily on...
So Trudeau continues to travel around the country, telling an unemployed man in British Columbia to "get off your ass and look for work," while Clark continues to hedge on crucial issues, a foreshadowing of disaster with his low-key, wavering approach to leadership. The large Liberal bloc in Quebec...
Salvos of applause ensue, and the entire party--seconds, onlookers, and the kid in the Spiderman get-up--troop off to Adams House courtyard to tipple champagne.
Holmes, licking a blueberry off his chin, acknowledges that he majors in government, "but not diplomacy."
Garry Wills's Nixon Agonistes, however, gives the opposite interpretation and backs it up with several pages of the press conference transcripts. Wills points out that Nixon lashed out and backed off, lashed out and backed off, on the edge but never breaking, always hedging his bets. Wills notes that...