Word: sideshow
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...year mayor of Davis, Calif., "but this raises the ante. It is a symbolic acceptance of women in leadership positions." Declares Eleanor Smeal, former NOW President: "Never again will women embark on a major campaign without being taken seriously. No longer will women be the sideshow. The women's movement has at last entered the main ring of professional politics-not least in our own eyes...
SOMEWHAT LOST in turmoil and tragedy of the past few months has been a slightly morbid, yet potentially momentous "sideshow": the double invocation by Congress of the 1973 War Powers Resolution. This strange blend of binding and non-binding resolutions remains one of the most confusing and misunderstood laws in American Constitutional history. Its primary departure from post-World War II custom is a 60 day time limit on the independent prerogative of Presidential military action...
Through the early half of this year, Mondale had raised roughly $5 million, just about twice as much as Glenn. True, Mondale's expenses are higher-for example, he had to stage that extravagant sideshow in Maine-and Glenn currently is about matching him in fund raising. But as far back as the beginning of 1982, Mondale had a computerized list of 25,000 people around the country who could be tapped for small contributions by direct-mail solicitation. Glenn's aides are only now putting together a similar list...
...goal. Everyone needs the cease-fire now. It may be destructive for us, but it is for them too. The goal is the withdrawal of all foreign forces. The battle in the mountains has had two aspects. In one sense it has been a sideshow to prevent Lebanon from asking for complete [foreign] withdrawal. In another, I think they wanted to come into Beirut and overthrow the government. Without the army at Suq al Gharb they would have done it. Our army is really only five months old. No one expected them to do so well. I want to tell...
...time is fast approaching when we will have to decide whether this Congress is a serious deliberative body or not. [The budget deficit] ought to be at the heart of our legislative agenda. Instead it is a sort of a sideshow . . . It seems we are drifting into an aimless stupor...