Word: specters
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...specter raised by the proponents of U.S.English of a United States in which a large minority of people are totally unable to function in English, thereby constituting a separate political and social force, is no more real than ghosts stalking the halls on Halloween...
...race, Democrat Robert Casey defeated William Scranton III to replace the retiring Republican governor. Incumbent Republican Arlen Specter cruised past Bob Edgar in the Senate race...
...evening last year, an Eliot House junior told her roommates, she had seen a ghost in her I-entry room. "She said she sensed a presence and saw a specter, but it was really brief," says one of her roommates, who would not be identified. "She said it was not a fearful presence...
...Pennsylvania, the candidates have followed the opposite game plan. There Reagan is far less popular. The unemployment rate has been running above the national average -- over 11% in some depressed industrial areas of the state. On the stump, Arlen Specter, a relatively moderate class of '80 member, rarely mentions Reagan and never discusses Republican control of the Senate. "That argument works more to my detriment than to my benefit," says...
Observers feel that Specter could be upset by Underdog Congressman Bob Edgar, who trailed his foe by about 18 points in a recent poll. An unabashed liberal who would increase social spending and reduce military appropriations by scrapping the MX missile and Star Wars, Edgar, a Methodist minister who combines a genteel manner with tough rhetoric, attacks the President and the Senator in the same breath. "Ronald Reagan wanted to take away your Social Security benefits back in 1981," he tells a group of senior citizens. "I was outraged . . . But Arlen Specter thought it was a good idea...