Word: terme
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...spite of his low national profile, Babbitt has begun to stir interest with his impressive record as a two-term Governor and his provocative ideas about national policy and the future of the Democratic Party. "There are two Democratic Parties," Babbitt declared at a hog roast in Red Oak. "One is our national Democratic Party, which has lost four of the last five presidential elections by increasing margins. The other Democratic Party has won 34 of the governorships and control of a majority of the state legislatures and county commissions. One party is failing. The other is a winner...
...Treadwell, who speaks in earthy parables and commits self-mutilation. The book begins and ends with fireball confrontations between the evangelist and his firstborn son, recalled by another son, Luke. The rest, rich in incident, sounds the depths of sexual betrayal and despair. Treadwell calls himself a storyteller, a term that provides a sly, apt link between novelist and revivalist. Each, Wilson suggests, is trying in his way to explain the random nature of fate. In both the father's febrile sermons and the son's cool observation, there is no justice, no fairness. There is, however, the restless energy...
...possible, of course, to dismiss such demands as no more than an opening bargaining position, designed to seize the high ground at negotiations. But there are no negotiations under way now, and scant prospect of them in the short term. The memorandum is, it seems, a revolutionary document. "The people," it pledges, "are determined to continue the process of building people's power in our communities, factories and schools regardless of the cost. The possibilities of freedom and democracy are no longer dim and distant. Our victory is certain...
...need-based aid. In addition, the Massachusetts-based Consortium on Financing Higher Education, whose 30 members include Northwestern, Harvard, Yale and Stanford, provides supplemental $2,000 to $15,000 loans to the same kinds of families. This past March, Stanford for the first time extended low-interest, long-term loan plans to parents in the highest income (more than $250,000) bracket. Though such help for the haves may seem a bit anomalous, tuition experts like Tally Wickstrom, director of financial aids at Purdue, point out that colleges have simply begun to adopt the funding techniques that have long applied...
...unsuccessfully for the Democratic presidential nomination, in part because he could think of no one more qualified to head the nation in an international age. A wooden speaker, he was elected Governor of New York in 1954, but failed to win a second term when he was challenged by Republican Nelson Rockefeller, a millionaire with a more common touch...