Word: resistance
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...abolish the system; that would require a state-by-state rewrite of election laws. Jackson replies that the party and its nominee could pledge to attack runoff primaries in court as violations of the federal Voting Rights Act of 1965. In any case, white Southern Democrats would fiercely resist an attack on runoffs. Says Georgia Democratic Chairman Bert Lance: "We are a majority-vote nation." Lance professes to be a friend of Jackson's but asserts that if Jackson presses an attack on runoffs at the convention, "he will run into a fellow who will go to the wall...
...relations with the press: "I don't mind a microscope, but boy, when they use a proctoscope, that's going too far . . . One of the reasons that I think most of our 'media friends' rather miss me is that they just can't resist psychoanalyzing, because they think I'm a very complex, and therefore interesting, person-and in this case, I'm not going to disillusion them...
Sevareid also emphasized a need for journalism to resist censorship. The purpose of the press is to "find truth as best we can and transmit it with all the skill and courage we can summon," he said...
...HART'S position on gun control is not only inadequate on its merits, it also raises broader doubts about the Senator's desirability as a candidate. Specifically, it seriously challenges Hart's contentions that he offers fresh solutions and can resist the pull of "special interests...
...business guests receive blank cards (3¼ in. by 5 in.) that display the silhouette of a polo player astride his mount. At the American Harvest Restaurant in Manhattan's Vista International Hotel, diners receive a thin pad that slips into a shirt pocket. Still, some places resist the trend. Says Harry Poulakakos, 45, owner of Wall Street's popular drinking spot Harry's at Hanover Square: "If someone asks us for paper, we give them a yellow legal...