Word: reactional
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Dates: during 1980-1980
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...Place for Atlantic and Ventnor." "Nyet. Maybe ve trade Baltic and Mediterranean for Boardwalk.") Nixon rattles off lists of "Soviet conquests" as if they were playing cards or, dare one say, dominoes--"Angola, Ethiopia, Afghanistan, South Yemen, Mozambique, Laos, Cambodia, and South Vietnam." Ambiguities, complexities, individual circumstances--irrelevant; nationalism, reaction against imperialism?--mere facades...
...Anderson faces enormous skepticism about the success of his efforts as a presidential candidate. Asked who will actually be the next President, 52% say they expect Carter to be reelected, while only 30% predict a Reagan victory. Only 1% say Anderson will win. Asked for their reaction to the statement "You don't take Anderson's campaign too seriously, and he doesn't stand a chance of being elected," 59% say they agree. At the same time, only 23% of his supporters say they are strongly committed to him. No less than 55% continue to express unhappiness...
...month. Both the players' Miller and the owners' Grebey expressed satisfaction with the accord. "It's good for everybody," said Grebey. "The fans are going to see ball games, and that's really what counts." Indeed, the fear of sharply adverse public reaction to a strike kept both sides plugging away until a solution was found. Said Chicago White Sox Owner Bill Veeck: "We have enough disasters-Iran, Afghanistan, Miami, the economy. People need something that is stable. A strike would have been disastrous for the game and a disservice to the country...
...headquarters in the El Bohio Café on Bergenline Avenue is jammed with refugees, who get $50 and all the food and clothes they need. Volunteers take pledges over the phone for jobs, supplies and lodging. One merchant sends over a rack of new clothing, another offers jobs. "The reaction has been overwhelming," says Rodriguez. "We are taking care of these refugees. The Federal Government is not involved...
...nation's largest thrift institution, dropped its home lending rate from 17.5% to 12.75%. Said Irwin Kellner, chief economist at New York's Manufacturers Hanover Trust: "Rates are following a financial version of Newton's law that for every action there is an opposite and equal reaction...