Word: upbeat
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...tone will surely be more generous and magisterial. That is all according to plan. During the campaign, explains a political adviser, "you'll see aggressive speeches alternating in phases with 'statesmanlike' material." In his statesman mode, the President will let his optimism gush, encouraging voters to attribute the upbeat national mood to the presence of Ronald Reagan in the White House. Given the Democrats' recent flag-waving, middle-class tilt, he will work hard to protect his motherhood-and-apple-pie franchise...
...great need to make their convention a gripping TV show. Unlike the Democrats who met in San Francisco last month, the Republicans need not seize the nation's attention for their ticket and message. Their task is the much easier one of riding along with a remarkably buoyant, upbeat mood in the nation-by some measures, the most euphoric in at least a decade-and doing nothing that might erode the comfortable lead that Ronald Reagan had built before the first delegate arrived in Texas...
...midweek the President's team was wary of talking about taxes. Between the fiscal ideas of President and Vice President, claimed Bush to reporters as he stepped into a limousine, "there are no differences." Then he said, "No more nitpicking! It's an upbeat day, it's off to the races." Treasury Secretary Donald Regan, during testimony before the Joint Economic Committee of Congress, repeated the presidential line almost word for word. "There are no plans for tax increases in 1985," he said. Yet he declined to venture an opinion about 1986 or beyond: "That...
...delegates left San Francisco a great deal more upbeat and determined than they were when they arrived, but only marginally closer to victory. Mondale and Ferraro now face the daunting task of persuading the public to vote against a popular President at a time of surging economic growth and no obvious threat of war. Many Democrats, including Mondale's top planners, readily concede that the nominees can win only if they shape and carry out a virtually flawless strategy and get some breaks besides. Willie Brown Jr., speaker of the California assembly, wryly suggests that divine intervention...
...anti-Semitic rantings of the Nation of Islam's Louis Farrakhan. "We are much too intelligent, much too bound by our Judeo-Christian heritage . . . much too threatened as historical scapegoats, to go on divided, one from another." His face glistening by now, the Baptist preacher closed on an upbeat note. "Our time has come. Our faith, hope and dreams have prevailed. Our time has come." The emotional night ended as delegates, black and white, clasped hands high and swayed rhythmically to a stirring spiritual, Ordinary People...