Word: regarded
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...group of young, activist-oriented Republicans who are not comfortable sitting on the sidelines. The platform is not a narrow, negative, nationalistic, Communist-bashing document. There are elements of conservatism associated with values we Republicans share about the family and Judeo-Christian ideals. But it is liberal with regard to trade and the inner city. I think the platform expresses a newness...
...them as racial groups. Proponents of the new system point to it as evidence that the government of Prime Minister Pieter W. Botha is serious about its promises of political reform. But because the country's 23 million blacks are completely excluded from the new Parliament, some critics regard it as a divide-and-conquer strategy to set blacks against coloreds and Indians. The United Nations Security Council, with the U.S. and Britain abstaining, last week condemned the new South African constitution as "null and void...
...respondents say they would vote for Reagan, 31% for Mondale (see following story). Interestingly, all the national polls found Mondale's postnomination surge to be short-lived. Pollster Lou Harris believes that the hoopla surrounding the Olympics "totally wiped the memory of the Democratic Convention away." Political professionals regard summer surveys as rough sketches of attitudes, however, believing that voters do not focus on the campaign until after Labor Day. Reagan's analysts say they expect the President's lead to shrink, but even the rare White House pessimists count on staying ahead by at least four points...
...agony going on a film set the first time," he says. "You pray you are going to see somebody you know. It's exactly like going back to school for the first day." On the set of Passage he faced an additional hurdle, his daunting regard for the director: "The first two days in Bangalore I didn't want to talk to Lean. I was in such awe I wanted to fade into the background...
...spoofery as Not the New York Times (1978), together with Victor Navasky, editor of that sobersided weekly, The Nation, has collected more than 2,000 of these gems of misplaced certitude. "We can say with some confidence," they say with supreme confidence, "that the experts are wrong without regard to race, creed, color, sex, discipline, specialty, country, culture or century...