Word: use
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...press's proper occupation of examining candidates but to an increasing preoccupation with finding minute character flaws. The event that was giving pause to Gannon and others was the recent addition of marijuana use -- no matter when it occurred -- as a scandale du jour. The tendency to press excess was visible in a little-noted but unforgettable moment on Nov. 7, as all six candidates gathered in Des Moines for the Iowa Democrats' Jefferson- Jackson Day dinner, ready to discuss the issues. That same day Douglas Ginsburg's nomination to the Supreme Court went up in marijuana smoke...
...period when no war, recession or other single visceral issue dominates public concerns. Most of the dozen active contenders have had difficulty defining policy niches that set them apart from their competitors. Instead they run essentially on the claim that "I am the best." This cues reporters to use ever more powerful microscopes to study the contention. And since campaigning now starts two years before the first caucus, with no real events in the interim by which to judge the contest, journalists are drawn to examining the horses rather than the horse race...
...have to be judged relevant to his fitness for the White House, however much the public might view the story as Peeping Tomism. Further, though he knew that he in particular would get close scrutiny, Hart practiced his high-risk life-style after becoming a serious candidate. The occasional use of pot by Gore and Babbitt years previously, when it was common among young people, may have been a legal infraction. But no one has argued that these offenses say anything at all about their qualifications or character today...
...seeing a steady influx of ethnic Asians, "coloreds" (people of mixed race), and, most surprisingly, blacks. The migration to these so-called gray areas is taking place in violation of the Group Areas Act, which completed the process of assigning every square foot of South Africa to residential use by one of the four racial groups and, when passed in 1950, was hailed by Prime Minister Daniel F. Malan as the "essence of apartheid." Though the present government of State President P.W. Botha insists that the law remain on the books, authorities do virtually nothing to enforce...
...use of fertilizer made from radioactive waste has Oklahoma ranchers up in arms. -- Cactus rustlers raid the desert...