Word: protection
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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However, Jude Barry, an aide to the presidential campaign of Rep. Richard Gephardt (D.-Mo.), disagreed, saying, "I think there's going to be loyalty and commitment. We're prepared to protect what we have, as I'm sure the other candidates will as well...
Simon has been slow to adopt the maxims his chief opponents have deployed so effectively with voters in New Hampshire and lowa: cardinal rules like, "don't tell people you will raise their taxes even if it is for the nation's good," "say you'll protect American products, even though you know it will lead to a trade war," and most importantly, "don't get too emotional about America's shortcomings because no one wants to here it, anyway." The couched language and disingenuous strategizing of Simon's prime foes, Massachusetts Gov. Michael S. Dukakis and Missouri Rep. Richard...
...charges that it seeks to bully its neighbor. Yet Vice President George Bush talked tough while campaigning in South Carolina for the Republican presidential nomination. "We're not going to be pushed around about the defense of the Panama Canal," Bush said. "We will do whatever is necessary to protect American interests...
...light to Larry Flynt and his like to print what they wish about any public figure at any time with no fear of reprisal." Flynt, always a blunt instrument, has put it more inelegantly: "I think that the First Amendment gives me the right to be offensive." And, to protect more important things, it does...
Gary Homes, a spokesman for the United States Trade Representative, said the Reagan proposal seeks to protect the "intellectual property rights" of American scientists working with superconductors by preventing them from releasing research results that may be of commercial value to foreigners...