Word: rivalled
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...thus interesting, but hardly surprising, that divorce is no longer a taboo and has virtually vanished as an issue in national politics. No one could care less whether Betty Ford was divorced from her first husband before she married Jerry (nor whether the President's former rival, Ronald Reagan, got a divorce and remarried). And without more than a momentary pause, Ford and his advisers put Robert Dole on the ticket even though he was divorced...
...himself. On the foreign front he is likely to echo Giscard's cordial internationalism, particularly toward the U.S. and the Common Market, in contrast to Chirac's brand of Gaullist nationalism. To soothe the Gaullists somewhat, Barre named Olivier Guichard-a Gaullist party baron and bitter Chirac rival-as Justice Minister. As to how the new Giscard-Barre team will get their measures past the National Assembly, the President thinks he has a solution: the Gaullists have no choice but to back him. So far, the party's reaction has been encouraging. But the fact remains that...
...song Tie a Yellow Ribbon Round the Ole Oak Tree. Betty turned to Orlando, who was visiting the Ford family's VIP gallery, and the two danced breezily in the aisle for a few moments. The crowd went wild. Nancy purportedly was spared the sight of her rival's triumph. "I'm nearsighted," she explained. "I couldn't see the other end of the hall...
...journalists used to pride themselves on reporting the sober but important convention decisions that the restless television cameras ignored. They found precious little to pick over this time, when primaries and advance delegate counts had correctly foretold the results, and conventions served largely to ratify the relative strengths of rival factions. As Ken Galbraith looked lankily down on the serried ranks of pressmen, few of them even taking notes, he wondered aloud how any free-enterprising businessman would regard all that time and money spent for so little result...
Shortly before President Ford's nomination in Kansas City last week, his Democratic rival Jimmy Carter met with advisers in Plains, Ga., to discuss what U.S. energy policy should be. After four hours of talks, Carter emerged to report a consensus: the nation still lacks a "comprehensive, long-range, understandable energy policy." Though that is a charge that few Republicans could or would dispute, energy probably will not be much of an issue in the coming campaign. In the 33 months since the shock of the 1973 Arab oil embargo, public concern about that issue has slid from white...