Word: fatalism
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...remark was beginning to look more and more like an embarrassing gaffe than a fatal mistake. All last week Jimmy Carter was charmingly convincing as he reassured his many black supporters that he was still in favor of open housing-indeed that he would "fight for the right of people to move where they choose, even though they might not be welcome in the neighborhood when they attempt to move there." It was just that he did not want the Federal Government forcing a particular "economic or ethnic" mix on well-established neighborhoods...
...phrases, "ethnic purity," particularly offended many blacks and whites. The episode had overnight become the cause celebre of the campaign and sent the Carter camp reeling. Was this one of those fatal slips that can destroy a candidate? For the first time in what had been a near faultless campaign to reach the White House, the candidate had stumbled badly. He had confidently fielded highly complex issues, from abortion to defense spending, yet he ignited a brushfire over race-just as white liberals were beginning to swing behind him and his broad support among blacks was being widely noted (TIME...
Reagan's real assault, however, was launched against the Administration's military and foreign policies. "The evidence mounts," he declared, "that we are No. 2 in a world where it is dangerous, if not fatal, to be second best... Peace does not come from weakness or retreat. It comes from restoration of American military superiority...
Coach Barnaby said the change of courts may have been fatal for the Crimson in its match against Columbia. "The change from the very fast courts at Penn to Columbia's slow courts undoubtedly can make a difference...
...with its sloppy style and careless organization. But if we can believe this book, it narrates a tragedy: Allende, blinded by his trust in legality and the integrity of the generals, refuses to depart from constitutional tactics in order to defend his revolution. With hindsight, Rojas points out the fatal errors of disarming the workers and preaching restraint, which together destroyed the only potential check to military insurrection...