Word: smear
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...what else can we do than "give peace a chance?" Terrorism? The few crazies who put that forward can be forgotten about (except, of course, by the bourgeois press, which loves to smear the movement with them). The outlook of SDS is that a student movement must reach out to the majority of American people (and that means working people); people who are among the most sharply oppressed, and the most consistent fighters against oppression. A student movement which fails to do that will always be whipsawed between liberalism and terrorism...
...theoretical model of the U.S. economy that he insists is "most likely better than any of the well-known larger models." It is certainly constructed on different lines. Laffer uses only raw economic data; he ignores the seasonal adjustments that more conventional economists prefer because he thinks they "smear things." He also disregards such matters as the likelihood of a steel strike next summer, the prospective size of the federal deficit and the amount of money saved in banks. "These things all averaged out to zero when we tracked their effect [on the overall economy] in the statistics," he says...
...majority on Cape Cod, break even in Plymouth County, and then come out of the Democratic strongholds of Weymouth and New Bedford with a large enough majority to offset the Cape, and win. He lost because he did not break even in strongly Republican Plymouth County, where Keith's smear attempts-distributed by local Republicans in "Studds Sheets"-undoubtedly had an effect...
...Social Issue firmly but without hysteria. Adlai Stevenson III pinned an American flag to his lapel, reminded voters of his sponsorship of anti-crime bills, and lined up the chief prosecutor of the Chicago Seven as his co-chairman. By contrast, his opponent, Republican Senator Smith, ran a smear campaign and refused to reject the support of the John Birch Society. California dumped flamboyant ultra-conservative Max Rafferty and George Murphy in favor of Riles Wilson, a soft-spoken moderate, and John Tunney, who campaigned as a moderate liberal. In New York, Conservative James Buckley harped on social discontent...
...Nixon may choose to see the light and recognize that his smear tactics and early '50s political style are no longer viable in the '70s. He may take a more restrained course in preparing for the 1972 race. He may indeed end the war, stop the repression and, most important, do something for the lower middle class which has been hardest hit by the inflation/recession economy...