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...podium was the first ever selected for national office by a major party. As Geraldine Ferraro had told them earlier in accepting her nomination (by acclamation) as the vice-presidential candidate, "By choosing a woman to run for our nation's second-highest office, you send a powerful signal to all Americans. There are no doors we cannot unlock...
...symbol of new ideas and new departures in politics, even though her voting record in the House followed a rather traditional liberal Democratic line. Democrats hope she will win voters under 40, who in recent polls seemed to be turning heavily toward Reagan. That 2 is an ominous signal to Democrats, not only for this election but for the future. Men 50 or older, not surprisingly, were most opposed to Ferraro's selection in early surveys. But according to Johnson, Mondale's tracking polls showed that her performance at the convention was changing more minds in that group...
...presidential nominee, Jackson is determined to leave some room for bargaining on behalf of his supporters by warning that his endorsement might be less than ringing, depending on "our roles, our responsibilities and our proximity" in the campaign. "I'll play a trumpet with a clear sound to signal where we are relative to presidential politics," Jackson told the Washington Post. He added that the Democrats needed his "voluntary, enthusiastic support" to ensure a large Black turnout, but that he was not "obligated to work for the candidate as if I had a staff position...
...taking the opposite tack, blandly insisting that "I am not suggesting a boycott of the election." In fact, he added later, he simply meant that he would keep his followers informed of his progress in winning platform concessions. Said Jackson: "If I'm negotiating for you, watch my signal...
...Houde, now chief of pain drug research at New York City's Memorial Sloan-Kettering Cancer Center. Fear, anxiety, stress, the expectation of disaster can make pain seem much worse than it is. For cancer patients, he explains, pain is often magnified because it is interpreted as "a signal of the disease having recurred, or some terrible complication setting in, or worse, that you are dying." Hope and encouragement can, on the other hand, make pain seem less than it is. During World War II, pioneer Pain Researcher Henry Beecher found that soldiers wounded during the bloody battle...