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...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 policy and defense spending. Yet he still has only lukewarm support from conservatives and is confronted with outright sniping from the far right...
...will be diminished, Democrats hope, when he speaks at length on matters of substance. Moreover, Mondale adherents dream of Reagan blundering during the debates, making some significant misstatement of fact. The White House preferred to hold no debates at all, but Reagan's political advisers feared that an outright refusal would make their man look evasive...
...opportunities" in the U.S. The program offered by GM reportedly consists of a $1 billion "job security pool" from which workers with as little as one year's seniority can draw pay in the event their jobs are eliminated. The new contract does not contain any outright constraints on GM's ability to import parts and even entire cars from abroad...
Moreover, Wilson's condemnations of academia are often overly-harsh, often to the point of sounding adolescent. Though Wilson stops short of raging an outright attack on authority and its preceptors, his picture of religion and scholasticism is notably unsympathetic. Potential "heroes" are either washed up and disillusioned by their own insight, or undercut their own good intentions with overbearing concern...
Harvard Coach Joe Restic, gunning with his squad for a third straight piece of a league crown and the first Crimson outright Ivy title since 1975, even admits he's slightly worried...