Word: pie
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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President Reagan will be reelected by an overwhelming margin next month, both because of his own record and the inability of the Democratic Party to field a marginally qualified ticket. This nation has a "pie" of goods and services it produces. Walter Mondale wants to cut the pie into thousands of pieces for every interest-group he can think of, while President Reagan wants to make the pie larger for everyone. The issues for the country are serious: will we allow unemployment to rise, the cost of living to spiral, and the risks of foreign coercion of the United States...
...agencies, warned that 20 packages of Morinaga candy had been laced with deadly sodium cyanide and placed on supermarket shelves. Within days police had scoured stores from Tokyo to cities in western Japan, and found more than a dozen of the lethal packets of Morinaga Choco-Balls and Angel Pie, apparently before anyone was poisoned...
...Ronald W. Reagan awards--first place, for pushing Mom, Apple Pie and Flag in a Harvard Context, to a Currier House hopeful who is running on the motto. "For Skill, For Experience, For Currier." Second place, for pushing Our Boys In Uniform in a Harvard Context, to the Leverett House candidate whose face fills in for Uncle Sam in a remake of the famous World War II "I Want You" recruiting poster. This candidate also snags the Richard M. Nixon Zealous Reelection Campaign Effort Award. His poster, according to a note on the bottom, is "paid for by the Leverett...
What sweet revenge to see Reagan--whose affirmations of Ma, apple pie, and all values American, had taken the place of intelligent argument--beaten at his own game by a man who was ready to crucify himself on the cross of rational discourse. What guilty pleasure to watch the President of the most powerful country in the free world fumble with his adjectives, sweet through pregnant pauses, and spurt out meaningless figures when faced with the simple question of what he felt about abortion...
Nearly all analysts agree that the most important factor in the President's Pied Piper appeal to young voters is the improving state of the economy. "They like the kind of notions Reagan gets across, like growth and job opportunity," says Teeter. "They're rejecting this whole idea of limits, that somehow the pie is getting smaller." Democratic Pollster Dotty Lynch agrees: "The youth vote feels the economy is strong, jobs are available. They are giving Reagan the credit." Peter Lund, 20, who is taking a semester off from college to work for the Illinois Republican campaign...