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Delaney Smith effectivly employed a full-court press throughout the game. "Their big kids are good," said the third-year coach. "We thought their weakness was in their guards."

Author: By Jonathan Putnam, | Title: Women Cagers Roll On, Crush Hartford by 35 | 12/3/1984 | See Source »

Some political observers professed to see little or no mandate for Reagan, despite the historic proportions of his victory. In 1980, they point out, Reagan ran on a specific ideological platform that included tax cuts and defense buildups, and in victory he could credibly claim that the electorate wanted both...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Set for More of the Same | 11/26/1984 | See Source »

Are the Democrats really done for? They certainly have some fundamental kinks to work out. Their party is confused philosophically. What was long regarded as a grand coalition, the political expression of American pluralism for almost half a century, is now widely seen as a creaky conglomeration of self-interested...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Election '84: Way Down but Not Quite Out, The Democrats Regroup | 11/19/1984 | See Source »

What he meant was, in part, that America's manhood was back. By his account, the Administration of Jimmy Carter and, he always added, of Walter Mondale, had stood for weakness and inefFectuality, for letting foreigners like the Ayatullah kick us around and imprison our people. The theme of...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: To the Polls at Last | 11/12/1984 | See Source »

Mondale, on the other hand, had to go into the trenches of the primaries and slug it out, state by state, in a field of eight candidates. It was, said one party official, a spectacle of eight Democrats standing in a circle and shooting at one another. The sight was...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: To the Polls at Last | 11/12/1984 | See Source »

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