Word: marginalization
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Dates: during 1980-1980
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...Neill (D-Mass.) and House Majority leader Jim Wright (D-Tex.) easily weathered the Republican hurricane. In a tough, uphill battle liberal spiritual leader Rep. Morris K. Udall (D-Ariz.), chairman of the House Interior Committee, surprised the grave-watchers and won by an almost two-to-one margin...
Beer flowed in dignified quantities in the chandeliered common room of Chase Hall as Reagan's margin widened. Students preferred to muse philosophically about the nation's shift to the right--rather than speculate about how a Reagan presidency would effect their personal market values...
Anderson's independent candidacy may have cost Carter victory in a single state--Connecticut--and narrowed his margin in Massachusetts, where strong student turnouts in Amherst and Cambridge gave the independent at least 16 per cent of the vote...
...building a challenge to the New Right must remember the lesson of 1968. In that year, many college students disdained to vote for either Hubert H. Humphrey or Richard M. Nixon because they considered both candidates to be neanderthals. Perhaps as a result, Nixon was elected by a margin of 1 per cent of the popular vote. The nation paid a heavy price for the liberals' refusal to vote for whom they considered the lesser of two evils. The same must not happen...
...member Air Line Pilots Association (A.L.P.A.) strenuously insists that the third person provides a needed margin of safety, much like a second engine or a back-up hydraulic system...