Word: restlessness
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DIED. George Gallup, 82, quintessential quantifier of American public opinion for more than five decades on issues ranging from toothpaste tastes to presidential preferences; of a heart attack; in Thun, Switzerland. An Iowa farm boy who grew restless on a summer job interviewing readers of the St. Louis Post-Dispatch, he devised, for a Ph.D. thesis, sampling techniques that sought to account for the diversity of potential respondents; he put these techniques to work for newspapers, then for advertising...
...America is ready to face the future and we are ready to lead." Ferraro said. The crowd which waited almost one hour was restless when Mondale arrived, but applauded vigorously at Ferraro's introduction...
...women's movement, even if he somehow upsets Ronald Reagan in the fall, deep divisions will remain within the party. The Democrats are groping for a fresh identity and a modern agenda. They are badly split between old New Dealers, as embodied by Mondale, and a large and restless group of "new generation" Democrats, championed vocally if so far unsuccessfully by Gary Hart. The party is in the midst of a prolonged mid-life crisis, no longer able to rely on the formulas of the past, not yet able to articulate a clear vision of the future...
Hart offers a truce, but women are getting more restless...
Devotion to the ordinary is apparently becoming too predictable for the restless Johnson. His latest sculptures are moving in new and slightly naughty directions. The artist is contemplating one for placement behind shrubbery. It would depict a man furtively zipping up his trousers. For Johnson it represents a common public event: using bushes for bathrooms...