Word: strength
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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After spending years writing letters against nuclear weapons, I now realize that we must keep up with the Soviets in the arms race or they will annihilate us on the flimsiest excuse. Military strength is the only sensible strategy...
Mondale's weakness plays directly into Glenn's strength: an appeal that cuts across class and interest-group lines, based on his days as an astronaut, which will be celebrated again in the upcoming movie of Tom Wolfe's The Right Stuff. Crowds pack around to stare at the first American to orbit the earth, fondly remembering a time when the nation seemed more united and the future more full of hope. One telling incident: when New York Governor Mario Cuomo played host to a Democratic forum at which Glenn spoke, Cuomo's secretary begged...
Among Democrats alone, Mondale leads Glenn, 29% to 25%, but Glenn has a nine-point advantage among independents, who in some states can vote in either party's primaries. Mondale's greatest strength is in the Northeast, where he tops Glenn by 35% to 24%; he trails the former astronaut in the Midwest and South. Mondale is the clear choice of blacks and other minorities, with 32% support, easily beating out Glenn with 12%, and even Jesse Jackson, who currently claims only 23% of that constituency...
...airline business was once a strength. Now it is a weakness. That is the conclusion many airline executives have reached after five years of bitter fare wars. Largely as a result of airline deregulation, which started in 1978, a two-tiered industry has come into existence. On the one hand are the old, giant, heavily unionized trunk carriers with high, fixed labor costs. Examples: Continental, Eastern and TWA. On the other hand are the new, small, nonunionized carriers. Examples: People Express, Muse Air and New York...
...dollar's current strength is a mirror image of its weakness in the late 1970s, when it sank to new lows against the West German mark, the Swiss franc and the Japanese yen. Then, many of today's problems were reversed. The abject dollar worsened U.S. inflation by raising the price of imports. European leaders angrily charged that the weak American currency made U.S. exports too cheap and was thus hurting the sale of European goods. The failing dollar also encouraged the Organization of Petroleum Exporting Countries to keep jacking up oil prices since member countries were being...