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With the adoption of this rule, delegates will not become truer agents of the voters, as was intended. Before last night, delegates' chief strength lay in their ability to negotiate with their own candidate in an effort to strengthen his position on the issues they were concerned about. They were able to do this by their legitimate claim to be acting in the name of the voters back home. Now, they are firmly in the candidate's pockets; he can remove them--or more likely, threaten to remove them--even if they are only "seeking" to disagree with his policies...
...capital for 30 years, and the Israelis have occupied the rest of the city since the Six-Day War of 1967. But the bill's effect, as with so many of the dubious actions that have attended the government of Prime Minister Menachem Begin, was to strengthen Israel's enemies and to confound its allies. Lamented Jerusalem Mayor Teddy Kollek, a disappointed opponent of the bill: "Whom did it help? I see what confusion it has created, even among our friends...
Bush will strengthen the ticket in several large states, including Illinois, Ohio and his home state of Texas. Bush will also give Reagan much needed help in three swing states that G.O.P. strategists consider very important but difficult for their candidates to carry: Michigan and Pennsylvania, where Bush defeated Reagan in the primaries, and New Jersey. All six states are elements in what Reagan's aides call his "redundancy" strategy. This means that Reagan will campaign hard in more states than he needs to win the election?in contrast to Ford's 1976 "big-state" strategy, in which he conceded...
...only a few minutes of daily exercising should suffice. The movements may be uncomfortable at first, and each exercise should be repeated only two or three times when starting out such a program. If there is any pain, the exercising should be halted. But as the muscles stretch and strengthen, the routine should become more natural, if not actually...
Reindustrialization at present is "a slogan searching for substance," says Jerry Jasinowski, co-chairman of a Carter Administration task force examining ways to help American industry. He has a point. And in their search, policymakers should remember that the most important way to strengthen the nation's industry is to pursue fiscal and monetary policies that will create the stable, predictable and noninflationary climate in which busi nesses can flourish...