Word: reassertions
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...democratic mandates, conditional. He has temporarily taken the center away from the Democrats, and it remains to be seen how long he can hold it: after the Viet Nam War, the test should be those bread-and-butter, pragmatic issues that the post-McGovern Democrats will undoubtedly try to reassert. In a curious way the President may find that the very fact of his landslide may make Americans doubly watchful and critical of his performance in the next four years?something that should be reinforced by the Democratic Congress. It is, for Nixon, an only slightly mitigated triumph...
...this respect, the work of Nader's Raiders seems trivial. Not only have the authors borrowed heavily from the classical source book on Congress, Charles Clapp's The Congressman, but their purported revelations also reassert the discontinuity betweeb theory and fact of federal government which scholars have long noted and incorporated into their models. For example, many students of Congress accept the attrition Congressional initiative as a by-product of the welfare state. Pressures on the federal government to distribute more benefits and control more operations force, according to this model, the build up of power in the executive branch...
...position in Europe as a preparatory step to the Conference on European Security. Owing to the growth of Soviet seapower, Yugoslavia is strategically far more important than ever to Moscow, which wants a naval base on the Adriatic for its warships in the Mediterranean. The Soviets also seek to reassert their former "elder brother" status in Yugoslavia so that they will have a direct influence in the maneuvering that is bound to follow Tito's death or retirement...
...ivory tower, that the failure until very recently of the student movement to make an issue of it is a testament to that ever-exciting phenomenon's instinct for ineffectiveness and tokenism. But even as the battle has been joined this past Spring, that instinct appears ready to reassert itself...
...week that an end to Ulster's troubles is in sight. Ominously, on the other side, militant Protestants were building up toward a potentially explosive demonstration this week. The right-wing Ulster Vanguard planned a protest march in Londonderry to demand that the British army and Ulster police reassert their rule over the barricaded "no go" areas of Bogside and Creggan, where I.R.A. gunmen have been roam ing at will...