Word: bested
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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This is one of the evidences of an increasingly early attention focused on a Presidential race. I don't think it's in the best interests of our country to start so early....And I think that since this is the first test between myself and other candidates who are also mounting an effort among their supporters, it will be significant...
...BEST GUESS RIGHT NOW is that Kennedy will nab between 35 and 40 per cent of the delegates selected. Even if Kennedy wins today Carter can still count on the vast majority of the officially picked representatives. But the slim Carter victory that most predict may still be "perceived" was a loss. The president's political ship is slowly sinking. Any less than a landslide in the once-secure South could spell media doom for the man from Georgia...
Mandelbaum portrays his work as "the story of the evolution of the best of all possible nuclear worlds...." Mandelbaum says nuclear strategy to 961 evolved through a calm reasoned discussion by scientists, strategists, and even dispassionate top-echelon government personnel. And when Mandelbaum's United States faces nuclear challenges, it rises as a monolithic community combining unanimity on strategic questions with general agreement on foreign policy goals...
...Kennedy and McNamara in the nuclear debate. But though Mandelbaum manages to give a fairly competent review of the bare bones of the strategic disputes of the Kennedy administration, he persists in understanding policy development as the province of a very few, very talented men. Thank heaven for the best and the brightest...
...symptoms of periodontal disease--bleeding gums and loose teeth--appear only in its latter stages, Jeffcoat said, adding that its best deterent is proper and regular tooth care...