Word: phrasings
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...Mondale for president, openly and vocally, as did most other students on campus, if polls conducted last fall are accurate. But much of this support, you got the sense, was predicated on the notion that there was no intellectual basis for backing Reagan. "You voted for Reagan?!" was a phrase said only half in jest most of the time, as if somehow the errant person were a mental midget...
Unless unforeseen international crises erupt, the success of Reagan's second term will probably be decided at home. His "window of opportunity," to use a favorite Washington phrase, is variously estimated at somewhere between 60 days and eleven months. After that, it is widely assumed that Congress will become distracted by the 1986 elections. Reagan's ability to tackle the deficit, says one senior adviser, "is going to be determined by how successful he is coming...
...more anticipatory American journalists, the problem was that nobody knew what was coming, and coverage was thus conspicuously full of "on the one hand this, on the other hand that." The one thing the reporters were sure of was that, in Brokaw's phrase, "No matter what the diplomats say, these talks are no small potatoes...
This slightly mad reaction to a grisly burst of violence owes much to the fact that the story instantly took on the form of a morality play. (In fact two columnists, on the same day, headlined their comments on the shooting with that phrase.) SYMBOL OF SUBTERRANEAN VENGEANCE, the Washington Post called Goetz. But no one remains a symbol, no story remains abstract forever. Mayors and editorialists can take heart: as soon as reality sets in, the glamour will fade, and the people will come to their senses...
...make progress in the offensive area while the defensive talks drag on inconclusively. No way, say the Soviets. The Geneva joint communique stressed that "all the questions" in the coming negotiations should be "considered and resolved in their interrelationship." Soviet diplomats say their side insisted on that cryptic phrase, and as they translate it, it means the U.S.S.R. will not agree to reductions in its offensive forces unless and until the U.S. accepts restrictions on defense...