Word: finalize
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Dates: during 1980-1980
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...Iranian government and the impression two carefully rehearsed politicians make in a fleeting 90 minutes of TV time is deeply disquieting. But in a sense the election has been building toward that kind of bizarre climax. For more than a year, two flawed candidates have been floundering toward the final showdown, each unable to give any but his most unquestioning supporters much reason to vote for him except dislike of his opponent. Carter has been dogged by inflation and unemployment at home and turmoil overseas during his years in office, Reagan by a reputation for right-wing extremism and simplistic...
...Ford's gaffe in saying that Poland was not under Soviet domination in 1976. But those candidates had weeks to refurbish their images; Carter and Reagan will have no such luxury. Yet neither candidate felt he could pass up the chance to score a breakthrough and win that final, elusive, decisive few percentage points of the vote. Nor could either candidate appear to be ducking the other's challenge in a race in which neither can any longer afford to give the other the slightest advantage...
...fact is, entering the final round of the campaign, they have fought each other to a draw. The latest poll for TIME by Yankelovich, Skelly and White, Inc., shows Carter leading 42% to 41%, with 12% for Anderson and 5% undecided. But Carter's lead is so small, well within the range of a possible sampling error of plus or minus 3 percentage points, as to be almost meaningless, particularly since it is not the popular vote that determines who shall be the next President. A "national" election, of course, is really an amalgam of elections...
...could work that way. The so-called debate between Jimmy Carter and Ronald Reagan may be terribly influential in deciding the final vote, but, in truth, it is of marginal value in providing information for anyone to assess realistically the skills and intelligence needed by a President. Reagan hoped to demonstrate his heft and grasp of the issues, and Carter declared he would show everybody that he could memorize the script and would not have to use cue cards if he faces Brezhnev in another round of negotiations...
...face; his ill-considered initial approach to the Soviets was one of Carter's major foreign policy mistakes. The SALT II treaty he ended up signing with Leonid Brezhnev in 1979 was based largely on the deal that Ford had struck with Brezhnev three years before, although the final agreement did contain some advantages...