Word: ticket
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...going to be a difficult transition from being an independent member of Congress to being in the No. 2 position on the ticket...
...same interview Jackson had bitter words about the campaign to put a female on the Democratic ticket waged by "White women," a belittling reference to the predominantly White membership of the National Organization for Women (NOW). Until very recently, Jackson claimed, it was not they but he who championed the cause of a him-and-her ticket, and they snatched it without giving him due credit. Complained Jackson: "They went from a woman Vice President as a non-issue-while I pushed it in every primary-to making it a litmus test this summer, and I wasn't even...
...precise degree of Jackson's "enthusiasm" for the Democratic ticket became the subject of yet another controversy last week. Though he is pledged to support the party's presidential nominee, Jackson is determined to leave some room for bargaining on behalf of his supporters by warning that his endorsement might be less than ringing, depending on "our roles, our responsibilities and our proximity" in the campaign. "I'll play a trumpet with a clear sound to signal where we are relative to presidential politics," Jackson told the Washington Post. He added that the Democrats needed his "voluntary...
These warnings sounded like a threat to sabotage the ticket by encouraging Jackson supporters to stay home on Election Day. But the next day Jackson was taking the opposite tack, blandly insisting that "I am not suggesting a boycott of the election." In fact, he added later, he simply meant that he would keep his followers informed of his progress in winning platform concessions. Said Jackson: "If I'm negotiating for you, watch my signal...
People wait when they have no choice or when they believe that the wait is justified by the reward-a concert ticket, say. Waiting has its social orderings, its rules and assumptions. Otherwise peaceful citizens explode when someone cuts into a line that has been waiting a long time. It is unjust; suffering is not being fairly distributed. Oddly, behavioral scientists have found that the strongest protests tend to come from the immediate victims, the people directly behind the line jumpers. People farther down the line complain less or not at all, even though they have been equally penalized...