Word: filtering
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Dates: during 1980-1980
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...delegates and alternates. Campaign Research Chief Martin Franks says optimistically, "Our delegates are true believers." The question is whether the Carterites will stay true blue for the two weeks before the convention if the bad news continues to flow. Signs of uneasiness in the ranks were beginning to filter into the White House. Says one top aide, who is phoned by contacts all over the nation: "We're not getting any calls specifically saying, 'Oh, God, this is terrible,' but they're wondering what's going on and it comes up in the course...
People do read newspapers, listen to the radio, watch television and go to the movies, where they are also barraged with propaganda.* But with a lifetime of constant practice, Soviet citizens develop a mental filter that allows them to block out the ideological exhortations and concentrate instead on entertainment or just-the-facts news?to the extent that facts are printed...
...plus working with students and faculty--I haven't scene any arrogance at all," he says as he drags on his Chesterfield non-filter...
...about it, we're headed for the best government that money can buy." Second, Dreyfus wants to revive the state's Democratic and Republican parties, which are nearly broke. By passing the PACs' cash on to candidates, the parties would serve as what Dreyfus called "a filter between the special interest money and the candidates, a buffer between policy making and dollars...
...conservative with a conscience, but a conservative first and foremost. The Jeffersonian creed that "government that governs best governs least" remains the operative phrase in Anderson's political vision. Just put the money into the pockets of consumers and hence into the market system and the benefits will filter down to those in need. It is a traditional doctrine, Adam Smith filtered through 200 years, but what was liberal in 1776 is liberal no more...