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While Mondale has risen in the polls, so has the man he seeks to unseat, Ronald Reagan. The President is riding a tide of good feeling generated by the robust economic recovery. About 60% of those responding to the poll "feel that things are going well these days," while about one-third were as sanguine a year ago. In fact, the country's mood is better than at any other time in the past six years. Nonetheless, the number of those who say that they feel "a lot of confidence in the future" (35%) has remained virtually unchanged...
...running a close second to the former Vice President, and each draws more support from Democrats and independent voters than all of the other contenders for their party's presidential nomination combined. But as the Democrats jostle and jockey on the hustings, the man they seek to unseat remains an elusive and increasingly formidable target. Ronald Reagan, ambling along at his own aw-shucks pace toward announcing for reelection, has perked up his poll ratings with a personal popularity that continues to outpace that of his policies or his party...
...after King and other insurgents failed to unseat Jackson, they led 500,000 blacks out of the organization and formed the Progressive National Baptist Convention. The majority of black Baptist churches and minister stayed with N.B.C.U.S.A. out of loyalty to their denomination. Nonetheless, since Baptist congregations are autonomous thousands of N.B.C.U.S.A. churches simply ignored Jackson's preachments and supported King's struggle...
...ridiculed as "old hat" letters that Nkomo had sent from London proposing talks to solve Zimbabwe's internal problems. Then, to the surprise of most of the M.P.s present, Zvobgo announced that, because the government was not "vindictive or divisive," he would withdraw the controversial motion to unseat Nkomo...
...store owners and other retailers queue up at the Consumer Electronics Show every June to place orders for the Christmas selling season. When participants gather this week in Chicago for the annual bazaar, however, the hot topic of conversation will not be whether Zaxxon or Keystone Kapers will unseat Centipede as the industry's bestselling videogame. It will be: What's going on at Atari...