Word: defeated
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Dates: during 1980-1980
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...DEMME didn't make him a hero. They don't try to graft any Hero of the American West symbolism onto this resolutely unheroic man; Dummar is no Gilmore, and Goldman is no Mailer. Melvin never gets a cent because the courts rule his will invalid. He faces his defeat with a curious--yet by this time predictable--ambivalence. Melvin says and actually seems to believe that he never had anything, so he's not losing anything. Despite all the lousy hands he has been dealt, Melvin enjoys his life and doesn't see any reason to change it. Melvin...
More important, liberals who feel the nation has abandoned them should look at the history of the election itself and its candidates before they leave the country. The 1980 presidential election cannot truly be called a defeat for liberalism because no liberal was on the ballot as a major candidate. Neither Carter nor Anderson presented economic or foreign policies that were fundamentally different from the Republican tradition of fiscal conservatism and increased defense spending...
...Carter's defeat represents a setback for the Democratic Party in the short run, certainly, and Reagan's election presents troubling prospects for the next four years. But 1980 offers, with bitter finality, a vital lesson for Democratic leaders as the party regroups for the next decade: that for the Democratic Party to get out its voters and mobilize its power, it must take Democratic stands and nominate Democratic candidates. For future reference, this means that the party's presidential nominee should not support the use of unemployment to combat inflation, should not support a foreign policy of military intervention...
...from them by identical-looking Republican challengers in a few years. Jimmy Carter lost because he failed to define how he differed from Reagan's blatant appeal to human greed and senile values--others who follow in his path will follow him to political limbo. This election was a defeat for the half-baked party Carter hoped to forge, not for the party that Franklin Roosevelt did forge and the one that can emerge strong from this year. If 1980 becomes engraved in history books as a milestone, let it be known not as one in the nation's move...
...keyed former financial expert had just handed a devastating defeat to Prime Minister Michael N. Manley, the buoyant leader of the People's National Party. In a reversal of the landslide Manley won in the past two elections, the final count might give the Labor Party 51 of the 60 seats in the country's Parliament, a gain of 38 over the 1976 election. The People's Party was reduced from 47 to a mere 9. With that, the island nation had taken a sharp turn in its political course: away from Manley's pro-Cuban...