Word: supping
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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Although there is a small drift to ward Carter, the race quite clearly is virtually even. The key variable may be the degree of turnout among the sup porters of the two candidates, which the Yankelovich survey makes no attempt to predict. But the poll did ask whether voters were looking forward to Election Day or whether they wished they did not have to make any choice at all. Thirty percent say they would rather avoid making a selection. That figure, moreover, rises to 55% among the undecided, the very group now tending toward President Carter. What is more, fully...
...this goal. The second is a departure from Carter's commitment to nuclear power. The platform promises that "as alternative fuels become available in the future, we will retire nuclear plants in an orderly manner." On the third troublesome plank, the drafters brushed aside an attempt by Carter sup porters to soft-pedal the abortion issue. The platform now flatly opposes "any constitutional amendment" restricting the 1973 Supreme Court decision on abortion. That could be the most divisive plank of all, particularly if Republican platform drafters follow Ronald Reagan's lead in endorsing just such an amendment...
...piano suite, written when he was 27. The composer was also a music critic then, and it amused him to make up pseudonyms to represent various aspects of his personality. He even in vented a club for his fantasy creatures to join. Called the Davidsbund, it was sup posed to combat the philistines of the music world. (For a time, readers thought that the group actually existed.) Schumann also made up imaginary women, especially during his long, arduous court ship of his wife Clara. Three of the four couples who make up the ballet (Suzanne Farrell and Jacques...