Word: totality
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...million center-right supporters would turn to the Socialist but moderate-sounding President. The pollsters carefully spelled out the arithmetic of Mitterrand's task. From the environmentalist, Communist and fringe Marxist parties, they calculated, Mitterrand could expect to add 13.5 percentage points to his first-round score. Total...
...professionals estimated that the President could also count on 3 percentage points from Le Pen's first-round total. That support, they thought, would come mainly from disenchanted Communists in working-class districts, where Le Pen sentiment was often strongest. Such voters had cast anti- immigrant protest ballots in the first round, but were expected to return to the leftist fold in the runoff. An additional 2 points of support was expected from Barre voters. All that would push Mitterrand over the top with nearly...
...whose value Sotheby's had estimated at $100 to $150. "Spiritually, they are just wonderful," gushed Maria Olivia Judelson, wife of the victor. If so, then Cuban-born Businessman Gedalio Grinberg was truly exalted. He bought 136 of the cookie jars for a total of $198,605. "I wanted something from Andy," he shrugged...
Prestowitz does not suggest that the U.S. copy Japan's symbiotic relationship between government and industry. But he argues that Washington must offer limited support and protection to crucial industries. "At issue is not pure free trade or total protectionism," he writes, since "we have never had and never will have either one; but rather what combination of free and managed trade we will have." He suggests, for example, that military research and development might be redirected toward commercial applications that could lead to increased exports. Some of Prestowitz's prescriptions are vague and put too much faith in Government...
...hectic. The driven candidate campaigned 15 hours a day, sometimes more. No one could send out laundry. We weren't in one place long enough for it to come back. The men bought wash-and-wear shirts and charged them to their expense accounts. Access to the candidate was total. There was no Secret Service. Staff and press, candidate and wife -- and dog -- intermingled...