Word: knowingly
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Dates: during 1980-1980
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Question 6 on tomorrow's ballot boils down to whether an argument for governmental efficiency should take precedence over the public's right to know what the state legislators are doing...
...Phyllis Schlafly women-will-be-thrown-out-in-the-streets mentality, they can only shake their heads at Reagan supporters. "If the Republican party supports equal rights," Anne Wexler, a special assistant to Carter, asks, "why isn't it in their platform?" Incredulity is mixed with general fear; they know that anti-ERA support and the Right to Life movement run deep. While they ridicule measures like Reagan's promise to appoint a woman to the Supreme Court, they privately fear the worst. And they desperately hope that the important issues--overt social and economic discrimination (women still earn only...
...want to hear. "It's a celebrity-oriented society. It's hard to see how anyone could turn that around." Edward C. Banfield, Markham Professor of Government, sees little need to change either the media or the political system drastically. "Given the realities of American life, I don't know if there's anything wrong with the system. One can imagine what would happen if Abraham Lincoln appeared and tried to give a Cooper Union address to the American people. There wouldn't be anyone there to listen." Others, like Verba, note that "it's traditional to lament the fact...
...matter. "The function of government is the protection of evildoers and the rewarding of the good people. Two-hundred fourteen fire alarms in an eight-month period is nothing other than a zoo in the name of education, and our people are caught in a web they don't know how to get out of." So what would you do if you were president? "Oh, I'd go back to what we had in the early part of this century, where we were the leader of the world, and any Communist country started to infringe on the rights...
...miles and 23 states before he stopped counting three months ago. He has seen two of his portable computer terminals, for filing stories back to New York, go up in smoke. But Barrett remains stoic. Says he: "Come Nov. 4,1 have a fifty-fifty chance of knowing the President-elect better than most people know their next-door neighbors...