Word: underlayer
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...Theodore Roosevelt, Franklin Roosevelt, Kennedy-even George Washington, who lived before the age of party politics. They could tell by political instinct how far and how fast they could lead their own people. This will be the test of a second Reagan Administration: its reading of the forces that underlay its election...
...establishment akin to the Church of England, which could tax the general public for its support. The Constitution outlawed that kind of federal establishment. No one since, not even in 1984, suggested that any church be allowed to clothe itself with the authority of the state. What underlay the debate, however, was the role of religion in politics-or, rather, the contrary views of morality that differing clerics urged on a confused country, and what underlay that was simple fear of any state-enforced morality imposed by any religion...
They had come to Moscow for the first top-level meeting in 15 years of the Council for Mutual Economic Assistance, the Sovietled trading community. They talked about agriculture, oil prices and technology. But something even more urgent than economics underlay the discussions...
...postwar period that creed gathered such a following and such power that it became the dominant, almost consensual, political tendency in the U.S. Viet Nam destroyed that consensus. It did something more. It destroyed the sense of equilibrium that underlay that consensus, and introduced a period of volatili ty that is with us to this day. Not only is the center fractured, but the political system now oscillates between the remaining extremes. Revulsion with Viet Nam pulled the Democratic Party to the left: to Mc-Govern in 1972, and to an abiding distrust of American power and intentions ever since...
...joint committee that prepared the merger plan had several delicate issues to contend with. For example, their proposal had to assure black Presbyterians that they would not be hurt by the merger. Racial tensions underlay the historic split, and the reunion would have been seriously flawed if blacks protested the agreement. Despite decades of separation and suspicion, says Taylor, "the amazing thing is that black Presbyterians are saying, 'We're going to trust you one more time.' " Another key issue was the policy of the Northern church requiring local congregations to elect women as lay elders. When...