Word: popularly
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...blue plastic hard hats were popular souvenirs, and he easily won the battle of first impressions...
However he does in Iowa, Bush still must prove he is more popular in his party than the other Reagan challengers and then must prove himself able to take on Reagan himself. Manager Keene is right in saying: "He is well positioned within the party to take advantage of anyone's slipups. His cultural background makes him acceptable to the moderates and the Establishment and his politics are basically conservative." The candidate himself is looking ahead. Says Bush...
Director-Writer Robert Benton and his cast have made their own Scenes from a Marriage-a domestic drama that starts at a wrenching pitch and builds and builds to the threshold of pain. Yet the film is not imitation Bergman; it is, above all, peculiarly American. Adapting a popular novel by Avery Corman, Benton tells an unpretentious story that might well have served such vintage Hollywood tearjerkers as George Stevens' Penny Serenade and King Vidor's Stella Dallas...
...meeting--postponed the assembly because he will be out of the country on that date. He said he is not concerned by the possibility the faculty will recommend his ouster because such a vote would show "absolute contempt for civil liberties and civil rights. You don't decide by popular vote on the truth or falsity of charges that have not been examined or investigated...
...elections also represent a government effort to "promote a greater sense of participation" and generate popular enthusiasm for its modernization program, the State Department analyst said...