Word: teflon
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...demonstrated the kind of sensitivity to their neighborhoods they would have expected," said black Democratic City Councilman John Street. "I think he's going to hurt first and hardest in his own backyard." City Councilwoman-at-Large Agusta Alexander Clark, a Goode ally, is worried. "The brother was Mr. Teflon," she said. "He's been scratched now. The question is, Has he been scratched all the way down to the base metal?" Chuck Stone, veteran black columnist for the Philadelphia Daily News, thinks he has: "The short-term rallying round by blacks and the business community will disappear as Goode...
...President, in his budget speech, showed some signs of greater realism. While remaining feisty, he for once made no reference to his re-election, apparently realizing that the mandate argument had worn thin. It has, and so has the first-term description of Reagan as the Teflon President, the man to whom no blunder would stick. Over time even Teflon can be scratched...
...enemies also call him the Teflon President; no spills or grime can stain his radiant image. This is a useful quality. Although as king he would enjoy many quaint and archaic privileges, he would also shoulder enormous responsibilities; he would symbolize the nation. At home and abroad, disgruntled people would grumble not against America but against "King Ronald," or, rather...
...troubles of America would be blamed on him, pinned to his purple cloak. But there they would disappear in the glare of the royal, Reagan glow. A Teflon King makes a great scapegoat...
...Frontiers" of technological progress and economic opportunity. Reagan and others cite studies purporting to show that the technological and economic benefits of the space program outweigh the costs by 14 to 1. They note such practical spin-offs as hand-held computers, digital watches, long-lasting flashlight batteries and Teflon-coated frying pans...