Word: uppermost
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...upbeat mood about the economy could be seen in the results of a new public opinion poll conducted for TIME by Yankelovich, Skelly and White. While inflation and unemployment remain the uppermost economic problems in the minds of voters, Americans now give President Reagan credit for making progress on both issues. A strong 69% of those polled approved Reagan's handling of inflation, while 50% credited him with doing a good job dealing with unemployment. Those are large increases from just three months ago, when only 58% of those questioned thought Reagan was fighting inflation effectively, and a mere...
...PROBLEM? Simply this-the world is a big place. With a fixed number of ready ships, planes, and men, only a fixed piece of territory or ocean can be covered at any time. American policy makers must keep the paramount considerations uppermost in their planning. If United States forces ever find themselves spread too thinly, and a truly dangerous situation develops, then a real crisis could threaten the world. This point has not yet been reached, to the Administration's credit. But this week's events show the potential danger all too clearly...
That day Franklin Roosevelt's press conference was a grave business. One question was uppermost in all mind's. Correspondent Phelps Adams of the New York Sun uttered it: "Mr. President, can we stay out of it?" Franklin Roosevelt sat in silent concentration, eyes down, for many long seconds. Then, with utmost solemnity, he replied: "I not only sincerely hope so, but I believe...
...intones. "But you got to be registered to ride." Amen! "Get on board! Get on board!" There is fire in his eyes, a pin in his starched collar, a finger in the air. "We can move from the slave ship to the championship! From the guttermost to the uppermost! From the outhouse to the courthouse! From the statehouse to the White House!" The well-dressed congregation of the First African Methodist Episcopal Church in Los Angeles erupts with the same chant that has resounded in the Delta country of Mississippi, in Chicago, in Atlanta. It is a rising cry that...
Such conventional electoral calculus does not seem uppermost in Jackson's mind as he weighs running. His crusade would have other goals: stimulating as many new voters as possible to register; inspiring other blacks to follow his lead and seek offices on their own; forcing white candidates as well as blacks to raise and consider issues that are important to minorities. "My running will stimulate thousands to run; it would make millions register," he says. "If you can get your share of legislators, mayors, sheriffs, school-board members, tax assessors and dogcatchers, you can live with whoever...