Word: themes
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...obvious to me that there can be no Middle Eastern peace settlement without adequate Palestinian representation." So said President Carter at his Washington press conference, echoing a theme he had stated many times before...
...advertising, much of it unabashedly political. Mobil alone spends about $5 million a year, and from 1973 to mid-1976 not a penny went to product advertisements. Instead, the entire budget went to buying huge amounts of newspaper, magazine and television ads devoted to the now-familiar oil company theme--that somehow the government and those no-good liberals were out to get the struggling, public-minded energy entrepreneurs...
...first floor of Agassiz House in Radcliffe Yard at 3:30 p.m. Walker is now working on a book on American women poets, volume she hopes will detail the social influences on women poets and examine their lives and poetry closely. Her lecture will focus on a theme that has fascinated women poets for years: the sanctuary. Walker will discuss Emily Dickinson, Sara Teasdale, Elinor Wylie and Sylvia Plath...
...these problems were aggravated by the Lance affair. Republicans insisted that it had done lasting damage to Carter. Outlining the main themes of the G.O.P. attack on him in 1978 and 1980, National Chairman Bill Brock declared: "There doesn't seem to be a game plan or a theme. Foreign policy lacks coordination. Domestic policy has yet to have a pattern. His proposals are rhetoric, not specifics." House Republican Leader John Rhodes complained that "somehow this Administration has, in a very short time, appeared to lose its moral nerve." Senate G.O.P. Leader Howard Baker was preparing what he called...
...Washington State, G.O.P. Challenger John Cunningham found out that resentment against environmentalism was the biggest issue, so he made it his campaign theme. He won by splitting blue-collar Democrats worried about their jobs from liberal intellectuals preoccupied with the environment. Says Stanford Sociologist Seymour Lipset: "This is the kind of thing they are doing very well-looking from place to place, from region to region to find out what the discontent...