Word: instead
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Dates: during 1980-1980
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...campaign swing through California this week. But just as clearly, he was also elated. The President was home from his ninth and probably his most successful summit with U.S. allies. The two days of talks in Venice had gone far better than he or anyone else had expected. Instead of the anticipated division and discord, the seven al lies had affirmed their unity in the face of Soviet provocation and set a common policy to combat inflation and develop energy alternatives to oil. Moreover, Carter had shown signs of the statesmanship that many critics had found missing during...
When Reagan withdrew from the 1976 race he still had about $1 million remaining in his campaign fund. Instead of returning the money to the donors, he used it to organize and underwrite the Citizens for the Republic Political Action Committee. This group's stated purpose: "To promote conservative Republican candidates and promote conservative views." In the 1978 election campaign, Reagan used the C.F.T.R. as the primary source for the $615,000 that he handed out to 25 candidates for the U.S. Senate, 234 for the House, 19 for governorships and 122 others seeking offices ranging from Lieutenant Governor...
...book that dutifully records the point of view of every minority that raises its hand, or voice, but gives no coherent idea of American theme or direction. Says Pittsburgh's Hays: "We haven't had a new synthesis of American history since Charles and Mary Beard. Instead, we have had people going off in all these little directions and knowing more and more about less and less. To have somebody come along and put it all together is a rare thing...
...paper remains essentially specialized, and does not convey a full sense of the nation or the world. The Journal's foreign coverage is surprisingly skimpy for all those foreign bureaus. Some journalists say that it lumbers after news, instead of sprinting. "Considering the size of the staff," says Barren's Managing Editor Alan Abelson, "they should have more scoops, discover more stories." The paper also sometimes runs lightly edited corporate press releases on its inside pages. Some close readers detect a drop-off in the quality of its trademark front-page features. "They're letting some writing...
...four and is tinkering, just a tiny bit, with its tombstone-grim appearance. "We want graphics that add information to a story, not just decorate," says Page One Editor Glynn Mapes. "And that pretty much boils down to charts and graphs." The Journal uses line drawings instead of photographs on Page One. Every once in a while the paper may run a photo inside, as it did to illustrate an editorial last fall on Senator Edward Kennedy's accident at Chappaquiddick. Says Executive Editor Frederick Taylor, 52: "The paper speaks in a calm voice no matter...