Word: stumped
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INDUSTRIAL POLICY. Although he usually avoids the term on the stump, Tsongas favors a national industrial policy, and his campaign literature makes his preference clear. "American companies need the United States Government as a full partner if they are to have any hope of competing internationally," he says in A Call to Economic Arms. "That means an industrial policy." Tsongas traces his affinity for government involvement in the private sector to the 1979 Chrysler bailout. He applauds his own leadership on the issue, but the driving force was really Senator Richard Lugar, an Indiana Republican. "Tsongas was important to show...
...came from a disadvantaged home," Tsongas likes to say at the beginning of his stump speech. "My parents are Republicans...
...people who built this car, why do they hate me? What did I ever do?" Tsongas asks in his stump speech. "Then I bought a Chevy Vega. They hated...
...When I got into this race, it was not because I thought the earth was crying for a Greek Democrat from Massachusetts to run," Tsongas has said in stump speeches...
...most flamboyant stump may be that of former California Gov. Edmund G. Brown, who prefers white turtlenecks to dress shirts and grassroots politics to Washington...