Word: grounding
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Dates: during 1980-1980
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...some time in December. We would have had more of a start-up period. We had a rather frenetic type of campaign in the very beginning and were not developing the themes early enough in ways that were clearly comprehensible. There were mistakes made moving the campaign off the ground, mistakes I made personally. There was also the distraction from economic issues by issues of foreign policy, as well as questions raised about my own character...
...abroad because the larger issues have swamped him. Inflation and interest rates have doubled in his time. The true anguish at home, as described by Patricia Harris, Secretary of Health and Human Services, is among members of the middle class, who are far from deprivation but find themselves losing ground economically. Their fear is directed at Carter. Overseas, Soviet influence massed and grew and almost everywhere shoved a clumsy and reluctant U.S. against the wall. "We feel," says Raymond Aron, the distinguished French student of Realpolitik, "that American power is in decline. It is that simple and that unfortunate...
...talking to the community leaders, Harvard brought in its scientific experts to prove that it wouldn't hurt the people and sent its other experts to Washington to lobby for a tax loophole so the University wouldn't lose its shirt on a big gray hole in the ground...
Luongo is on more demonstrably safe ground in naming Ocean Spray as the No. 1 purveyor of cranberries ("Brigitte Bardot reportedly bathes in them and considers them something of an aphrodisiac") and the Boeing 747 as the best jet (it is, Luongo points out, fast, safe and comfortable and guzzles the least fuel per passenger of any commercial aircraft). Similarly, he endorses the best lobster as coming from Maine, the best mushrooms as Pennsylvanian and the best mules as Missouri's. The best veal, according to Luongo, comes from Delt Blue Provimi Inc., in Watertown, Wis.; the best steaks...
...Duffy stood over Linda Gray and shouted, "This is a job for Superman!" He ripped off his clothes to reveal a full Superman costume. He lifted Gray and raised one arm to the sky as if to fly. Three times he tried to get off the ground, then shrugged and said quietly, "Aw hell, we'll walk...