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...Callaghan, a communications major and an editor of the st. John's campus weekly, said Reagan was able to draw on "the pep rally spirit" generated by the school's entry into the NCAA basketball semifinal round, in which the team subsequently lost this weekend
...given the Federal Reserve the latitude to be fairly generous with the money supply and let interest rates fall in the past few months. A decrease in mortgage rates, from an average of 12.67% for a 25-year adjustable-rate loan last September to 11% now, has given pep to the bellwether housing industry. Between December and January, housing starts climbed 14.9% to an annual rate of 1.8 million, the sharpest rise in ten months...
...union, a 30-minute prerecorded TV film, was an oddly pallid presentation. Based on the discussions of four informal "focus groups," each made up of two elected officials and a dozen or so members of the public, the program was partly an exercise in self-criticism and partly a pep talk. Democratic officials defended the approach as an effective way of proving to voters that the party is engaged in a reappraisal of its appeal from the grass roots up. Said Mark Johnson, an official of the party's House Congressional Campaign Committee, which produced the $100,000 film...
...glance that the problem for his players would not be overconfidence. They looked overwhelmed. "The stress of that moment is unbelievable," he says. "You can go into a stupor under such pressure." Like Shula a pup out of Paul Brown, Walsh had heard tell of a crisp pep talk delivered by the Cleveland Browns coach on opening day of 1950, when the survivors of the disbanded All-America Football Conference were being called amateurs unfit to share a field with the great N.F.L. champion Philadelphia Eagles. "Just think," Brown said drily, "in a minute you'll get to touch Steve...
...there must be something to these inelegant pep rallies, some reason millions of normal citizens jump up and down in town halls and public squares, and shout themselves hoarse for candidates they can barely hear, saying things they all have heard before. Go get 'im, Fritz! Four more years! Maybe they're cheering the system. Maybe they're cheering themselves. Odd to think that at the center of the orgy lies the center of the country, the nation's history and reason for being resuscitated and kept alive in the tooting of a horn...