Word: sentimentalizing
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...budget resolution passes the House, the far more contentious decisions over exactly which taxes to raise and which military programs to cut will have to be resolved in the Ways and Means, Appropriations, and Armed Services committees. Nor will the Republican-controlled Senate be an easy sell: despite G.O.P. sentiment to scale back Reagan's defense increases, leaders in the upper chamber bowed to Administration pressure and delayed consideration of the budget until after Easter...
...similar study released in September 1981. That initial survey grew out of a secret "threat assessment" presented to NATO defense ministers. So startling were its findings that White House advisers and allied leaders prevailed on the Defense Department to declassify much of its contents in order to dampen disarmament sentiment in Western Europe and the U.S. The new edition focuses on Soviet strides since then. Among them...
Some specific issues seem to be eroding Reagan's support. Fully 78% of the public consider a balanced federal budget "important or more important than anything else" in achieving a healthy economy. That sentiment coincides, unhappily for the Administration, with the reality of record-breaking deficits. According to the poll, Reagan runs jarringly out of step with public opinion on his defense budget. At a time when he is fighting to sustain increases in military spending, 62% of the voters say that substantial cuts can be made "without jeopardizing national security...
...least cheerful findings for Republicans was that if Reagan were to seek reelection, he would lose, based on current voter sentiment, by 54% to 27% to any "acceptable" Democrat. What a voter finds acceptable, of course, varies widely, and an unidentified candidate with such a safely neutral label is more attractive in theory than any specific Democrat likely to get the nomination...
Sympathy for the Palestinian people is a worthy sentiment for over 30 years. Palestinians have been bounced around the Middle East locked in refugee camps, and used as pawns in political and military struggles. But merely to endorse one group without further, consideration on the larger issue, as the national BALSA would, is an overly simplistic and unproductive solution to a complex problem...