Word: utters
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...change. Nixon is already listened to by many people. His party has already forgiven him for the crimes he committed against the nation. The President has already accepted him as an expert on public policy. But if we are already willing to overlook Nixon's manipulations, lies and utter disrespect for the highest office and laws of the land, then the damage he did to the ideals of the nation is irreversible...
Like Dukakis, Gore suffers from an inability to utter a phrase or advance a proposal that sparks a visceral response in Democratic voters. "There has been no real focus, no consistency," says an official of the Democratic Leadership Council, a centrist group sympathetic to Gore's candidacy. "He has been lurching from issue to issue and lacking an encompassing theme that would tell you who Al Gore is and what his principles...
...past seven years Reagan has applied his supply-side tenets to the country's social programs--and this ideology has failed as badly as it did with the nation's economy. Reagan has reversed the strides taken in the 1960s--showing utter indifference to the struggles Blacks and other minorities have undergone to obtain even limited access to consitutional rights...
...face of adversity. Whether seared by Iran-contra or jarred by defeats in Iowa, Minnesota and South Dakota, Bush maintained his strategy. He never let the Reagan mantle slip from his trim frame, never strayed far from the base camp of Reagan policy and Reagan philosophy. When he did utter some minor heresy, it was a denial rather than an assertion. "I want to add here," he said almost parenthetically in one major speech, "that I do not hate government. I'm proud of my long experience in government." That was supposed to be a sign that he was inching...
...Soviet Union has one of the world's largest economies, but it operates on a simple principle: pay as you go. Soon, though, some Soviet denizens may utter the Russian equivalent of that time-honored phrase, "Charge it!" Visa International, the world's No. 1 credit-card issuer, last week won the right to offer the Soviet Union's first credit cards...