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...AXIOM OF POLITICS THAT running for the White House involves a zig and then a zag: during the primaries, candidates of both parties normally concentrate on wooing the liberal or conservative wings of their parties; once nominated, they pivot toward the broad middle of the American electorate, where the White House is lost...
...metaphorically, he abandoned the playing field. He later said he would wait for Congress to clear up the confusion he had helped engender. / Bush's vacillation confounded his allies and delighted his opponents. Newspapers across the country bannered headlines studded with words like WAFFLE, RETREAT, BLINK and ZIG-ZAG. Bush's approval rating, which stood in the mid-70s only a month ago, plummeted 10 to 15 points. It was, said a senior Administration official, "the worst week of his presidency." The outpouring of criticism reflected long-held doubts about Bush's approach to domestic affairs. G.O.P. strategists complained that...
...Wild Thing" immediately finds himself at odds with the conservative world of baseball. His hair is goofy--spiked high with a razor-cut zig-zag on the sides. His casual attitude toward his appearance causes the manager to chide, "We wear caps and sleeves at this level...
...basic states' rights issue involved is an uncommonly volatile one. The now reversed 1976 decision itself reversed a 1968 decision, a constitutional zigzag that scholars believe has never before occurred. And another zag may not be far off. Given the probability that President Reagan will make at least one new court appointment, many observers predict that the states' righters may soon regain control. "The majority thinking in this case is doomed," says Velvel. Indeed, in a surprisingly candid judicial version of "the South will rise again," Justice William Rehnquist, author of the 1976 decision, last week wrote tersely...
...scholars suggested that the party too had to change. There should no longer be one total authority compelling every unit of the state, from commune to city to Peking, to zig or zag every time the party zigged or zagged. The party's function is to lead. The government has another function: to keep order. Enterprise has yet another function, from village field to factory floor: to produce. Now the entire country was living through experiments, said Huan, trying to separate party apparatus from governing apparatus...