Word: baseness
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Dates: during 1980-1980
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...party obviosuly lacks the ideal leader to help it through this difficult period of transition. Jimmy Carter won the presidency by campaigning deliberately as an outsider -and he has remained one. Even if he wins a second term, he has no solid base in the party that would enable him to unify it behind his ideas. Looking to the future, Louis Koening, a political scientist at New York University, says: "The hope for the Democratic Party is to become a party of issues ?social, economic foreign policy, inflation, energy, the dollar, health costs. But party leaders have not emphasized...
...problems across the country, even in the South, where he got 40% of his electoral votes in 1976. While strategists like Hamilton Jordan profess confidence about holding the South, they concede that more time and money will have to be spent this year than in 1976 to protect this base. As the President's analysts now see it, Carter only narrowly leads in Louisiana, Mississippi and Alabama. Reagan is ahead in Texas and Florida...
Reagan's selection of Bush as his running mate may be a "clear signal that he wants to broaden the G.O.P. base." Unfortunately, Mr. Reagan's idea of broadening the base is to allow moderates and liberals to share his point of view...
...strict guidelines, they reason, Cambridge--a city where dozens of people vie for every available housing opening--would be overrun by young professionals. Studies predict neighborhoods would be destroyed and the working class would disappear. But the other side argues that gentrification of the city would increase the tax base and not hurt the elderly or the poor but only "student transients...
...last spring when they won concessions from city industrialists, who agreed to set aside many jobs in a new development for Cambridge residents with high school educations. But some fear that the restrictions may halt the growth before it begins; that growth is essential to the city's tax base...