Word: ragtag
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...able to do much to solve the existing problems. The rising rhetoric of new, improved and inexpensive liberalism is illusory; at best, a young liberal will spend his days in office battling the erosion of social programs and government regulation, fighting a desperate rear guard action for the ragtag Great Society. A Cambridge city councilor next year will not be able to improve police protection, or deal with youth problems, or even see that the potholes in Mass Ave are fixed. He will spend his term instead trying to find the least damaging cuts in services--which is more important...
...week's end the ragtag regatta had carried nearly 8,000 Cuban refugees to the U.S., thus bringing the total number ferried by the sealift so far to well over 10,000. They come to escape impoverishment, political repression and Castro, and to shape new lives for themselves in the U.S. The sudden influx forced Florida Governor Bob Graham to declare a state of emergency in Monroe and Dade counties-the area stretching from Key West to Miami-and led the U.S. Government to start airlifting refugees from Key West to Eglin Air Force Base in northwest Florida. There...
...standard performance-moralistic, idealistic, enthusiastic, and always self-assured -by this year's most uncommon candidate, the liberal Republican maverick who started his campaign last June as John Who?, then nearly won the primaries in Massachusetts and Vermont and now enjoys the enthusiastic support of a ragtag but sizable collection of independent voters, disenchanted Democrats and even a few like-minded Republicans...
Game by game, however, the ragtag squad is coming together to turn in creditable performances, including an 8-6 loss at Providence and two 4-3 setbacks at home to St. Lawrence and New Hampshire...