Word: self
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...saying that "tough choices have to be made," fails to make any decisions on taxes and spending. Jesse Jackson's plan to reduce the deficit by making very deep cuts in defense spending may balance the budget, but only by drastically weakening this nation's national security. And any self-respecting Democrat should ignore whatever Congressman Richard Gephardt has to say on the budget deficit, since he supported the Administration's disastrous 1981 tax cut which helped to create...
...despite all of the candidates' self-proclaimed support for education, higher education officials are worried that their commitment will not extend much beyond this election, and are therefore urging candidates to describe their plans more specifically...
...problem and meet it head on. Too often, Jackson says, we fail to see America's children as "our children," choosing to ignore them as "someone else's problem." But, as Jackson says, the children in this country are here to stay. For years, Jackson has led a self-styled crusade against drug use, telling America's young and poor that they are somebody, that they need "hope in their brains, not dope in their veins." Just saying "No" is not enough, and Jackson knows this. His campaign is about teaching the locked out to say "Yes"--to themselves...
...trip anyone up," says Kalb. "I don't want to do that, it's not my style...I don't think you get information out when you try to trip up a candidate." He says his show "never was conceived of as an opportunity for me to engage in self-promoting, hyperbolic questions designed for the viewer to say "Wow, isn't Marvin smart.' " Kalb insists on deriding such hostile cross-examination as a diversion from any serious discussion of political issues...
Nonetheless, Josephson has a lot of trust in his director. He never watches rushes of his films because he fears he will become self-conscious, holding his chin in the air in a ridiculous manner one day to correct a fault he saw in the previous day's performance...