Word: weaknessness
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Both candidates also made some less serious, and more obvious, slips. Reagan in his summation absentmindedly referred to "the policies of weakness of the last four years," as if he had traveled in a time machine back to 1980. Mondale taxed the President with not knowing that submarine-launched missiles...
Not everyone infected by the virus will develop AIDS. "There is clearly a spectrum of outcomes," says Jerome Groopman of Harvard Medical School. While some individuals will develop the full-blown syndrome, others will simply manifest the flulike symptoms of AIDS-related complex (ARC), a condition marked by swollen glands...
Finally, Jon Tolins (The Writer) and James Houghton (Tye) never really come to terms with their own roles, perhaps in part because of the weakness and limited range of their characters. This seems especially true for Houghton, who might be expected to be better given the success of an earlier...
In one of several examples of argumentative questioning from the panel of journalists, Morton Kondracke, executive editor of the New Republic, asked Reagan if he had not displayed the same weakness he accused Jimmy Carter of showing in the Iran hostage situation by not retaliating against the terrorist attacks. Reagan...
I think the combination of the format and the stakes made the candidates feel that they must make very simple points on very complicated issues. The real issue here is a philosophical one, and the President summed it up in a phrase, "Should we conduct policy from weakness?" That'...