Word: particularized
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...his/her position papers are not submitted by the set deadline. The only way that a candidate can be allowed on the ballot is if the vice-chair brings the matter to the attention of the council and the council then agrees to suspend the by-laws for that particular case. Vice-Chair Steve Smith took no such action. Smith justified this negligence by stating that "it's been done" in the past. He did not reveal his source for this information. The council later learned from a rather adamant ex-Chairman Brian Melendez that, to his knowledge, such leniency...
...Buchanan sounded downright evangelical for a politician, one evangelist in particular sounded mighty like a politician. He was Marion Gordon ("Pat") Robertson, 55, head of the Christian Broadcasting Network and a fixture on CBN's four-times-a-day The 700 Club. Robertson, a Southern Baptist, has been transmitting signals that he might join the race for the Republican nomination to succeed Reagan. Political pros are uncertain how big a factor he could be in the primaries, let alone the convention, but they are convinced that he could energize the Christian right and siphon votes from other candidates. True believers...
Whom does the swimsuit issue "hurt"? No one in particular...
...debate about the objectification of women, one could hardly have chosen a less worthwile example than SI. Not because it has nothing to do with these questions, but because an examination of this particular American "institution" adds little to any comprehensive social debate...
...male acquaintance, finding himself in the midst of this newly chic debate, was confused, rather rightly, about why there was such a furor over SI. He asked, "whom does this issue hurt?" As a single, sans-nudity, sans-violence "tribute to swimwear," probably no one in particular. Elle Macpherson was not only willing and happy to pose; she probably made a mint. And as Mr. Zucker suggests, those who don't like it aren't forced to read...