Word: sentimentalization
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...which would permit casino gambling on the state's economically troubled gold coast. Hotel owners have bankrolled a million-dollar campaign in its favor, but Governor Reubin Askew has mounted a sort of holy war against the proposition, arguing that gambling would attract organized crime. Polls show public sentiment to be running 2 to 1 against the proposal...
Republicans, who have traditionally called for tax cuts, have failed to capitalize on the new sentiment. When asked which party would fight harder to cut taxes, 24% said the Republicans and 23% said the Democrats, with the remainder being unsure or seeing no difference. Similarly, 29% of those polled said the Democrats would run the government more efficiently, whereas only 22% said the Republicans would. Democrats were seen by a 30%-to-24% margin as more likely to "keep the economy prosperous." Voters did not express overwhelming confidence in either party to handle the tax issue, but those...
...antitax sentiment a purely conservative trend. If voters had a choice between two candidates who expressed the same views on taxes, but one was generally perceived as a moderate and the other as a conservative, voters surveyed would tend to choose the moderate by a 47%-to-43% margin. But people do not intend to vote solely on the tax issue: only a third of those surveyed said they would switch away from an otherwise preferred candidate if he took a stand against a tax cut, less than the percentage of voters who said they would abandon a preferred candidate...
...speed limit, they turn into an instant faction and willfully protest the law with massive slowdowns. Los Angeles motorists, irritated by an experimental expressway lane for car poolers, defeat it not with persuasion and argument but by circumventions and defiant traffic blockages. It has become commonplace to see popular sentiment disdained, frustrated and sometimes decisively defeated by willful factions of minuscule size...
...human rights, they must be continually aware and finely tuned to the complex pattern of national realities in Eastern Europe. Rhetoric must be backed up by hard-headed knowledge of local situations--how far economic pressures can be applied to wean regimes from Moscow, when and where nationalist sentiment can aid the dissidents, when to speak out, when to work behind the scenes...