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Word: republicans (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1970-1979
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Matching Carter against a series of potential political opponents, the Yankelovich survey for TIME shows the President able to achieve only a tie with the leading Republican contender, Ronald Reagan. This represents a significant improvement in Reagan's standing against Carter's in the national polls...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Nation: Carter vs. Reagan: Dead Heat | 4/30/1979 | See Source »

...circumstances forced both of them on Congress: one readjusted U.S. relations with Taiwan, the other raised the ceiling on the national debt at the eleventh hour, allowing the Treasury to pay its bills. "This is the slowest Congress I can remember," says Illinois Congressman John Anderson, an 18-year Republican veteran. "The activity on the floor has been almost nil." Says Nevada's G.O.P. Senator Paul Laxalt: "It's just been eerie around here...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Nation: No Get Up and Go | 4/23/1979 | See Source »

...campus stringers for the major news media were finding lean fare in student activism, and so they started writing about how college kids those days held proms and swilled alcohol and joined fraternities and Republican clubs. And liked it. Undergraduate interest in Economics at Harvard was picking up about then, as was undergraduate interest in joining the corporate fold. There had been days of rage and even years of outrageous behavior, but kids would, after all, be kids. The watchers called it the New Mood, but it was really the old mood, which was no particular mood...

Author: By George K. Sweetnam, | Title: Ten Years After the Strike | 4/23/1979 | See Source »

Fish, the only living member of Walter Camp's legendary All-Time, All-America football team, came to Faneuil Hall as the expression of Old Harvard. He was the World War I Republican, a 25-year Congressional veteran, a decorated infantryman and never-say-die competitor...

Author: By Mark D. Director, | Title: Old Harvard and New Wave | 4/21/1979 | See Source »

...school way, Fish dismissed Jimmy Carter as "the biggest asset the Republican party has," and rejected the notion that athletes are intellectually inferior. He said, "The last four presidents [before Carter] all played football for their college teams...

Author: By Mark D. Director, | Title: Old Harvard and New Wave | 4/21/1979 | See Source »

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