Word: sentimentalized
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...Trudeau's poor management with positive measures of his own. Interest rates climbed. His promised tax reductions were shelved. Perhaps most important, Ontarians had a sense that shone through in pre-election polls that with Clark as prime minister, no one would defend the national interest. This federalist sentiment, together with a belief in the need for strong central government, has always been strongest in Ontario...
...Jung, campus organizer for the National Organization for Women (NOW), last night recruited a 25-member "action team" to mobilize campus sentiment and raise support among politicians and the general public for the Equal Rights Amendment...
Kansans aside, the primary is much involved with a uniquely Puerto Rican issue: statehood. Over nearly three dec ades of Commonwealth status, sentiment for making Puerto Rico the 51st state has grown steadily, and one recent poll put it at 55%. To boost that cause, the island's majority party, the New Progressive Party (P.N.P.), sponsored the 1977 legislation establishing the primaries, thus ending the custom of party leaders selecting convention delegates. "The primaries are a giant step toward promoting and achieving statehood," says Hernán Padilla, Republican Party executive vice president. "They take us into the direct...
...last president that was great was Roosevelt," she adds. She explains that Roosevelt brought the country out of the Depression and won the war. No single man can make that kind of difference anymore, she tells me. Pauline's fellow townspeople echo the sentiment again and again. The apathy in Farmington stems not from the belief that a single vote would not change things, but that the winner could not make a difference...
Among U.S. athletes, the dominant sentiment seemed to be against a boycott, but the debate was spirited. Protested Steve Lundquist, 19, a swimmer from Southern Methodist University: "You look forward to this all your life. Suddenly they just pull it out from under you." At first Al Oerter, 43, a four-time gold medal winner in the discus, complained that U.S. withdrawal from the Games was "passive, isolationist, weak." But like many other athletes he had changed his mind by last week. Said he: "I feel we should stop bellyaching and get behind the President. It is time...