Word: swept
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...Everything that is outmoded or that will hinder our progress, and everything that can be used to maintain the power and privilege of the Tory establishment must be swept away," exclaims far-left M.P. Eric Heffer. Heffer, 59, rejects the old British maxim that "the Labor Party owes more to Methodism than Marx." His view is blunt: "Marxism has been a more powerful influence...
Government waste and fraud has long fueled campaign rhetoric, and this year's elections were no different. Ronald Reagan and a conservative Senate swept in on the tide of his anti-inflation platform, denouncing the increased deficit spending, congested policy making and great waste of the Carter administration, just as Carter rode four years ago on the tide of Watergate and anti-big-business sentiment directed against the Republicans in office...
...budget-cutting ideas now under consideration by the Reagan Administration are original. Many of them were proposed by past Administrations but never passed Congress. Nonetheless, Reagan's staff believes that the widespread economic discontent that swept them into office will provide the political support to push the spending cuts through the House and Senate. Reagan, though, will still have to mount a determined campaign both on Capitol Hill and with the public to win his battle against federal spending. -By Edward E. Scharff...
...miss the playoffs, the Sox and Pats can fall flat and be out of it midway through the season. But throw four college hockey teams together before the inevitable packed house twice every February, and grown men cry, babies shriek, mature college students from prestigious Eastern institutions scream, swept up in the agony and ecstasy of an interfraternal encounter of the emotion-packed, frenzied kind. That's what The Beanpot will do, when Boston College plays Harvard in the finals, tonight...
...suit or hold out for stronger sanctions against A T& T. Though Reagan himself said nothing specific during the campaign about antitrust actions, some members of his task force on Government regulatory reform said privately that neither the IBM nor the A T & T case had much merit. Reagan swept into office on a pledge to "get the Government off the backs" of both the public and businesses. One of his first applications of that philosophy may be with Ma Bell...