Word: ridgeway
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...Hilton Ridgeway, 41, never even got a job in the Northwest. He resigned as a computer programmer in Albany and moved to Oregon with his wife and four children last June, expecting to find a new job easily. After several months of looking, he tried to enlist in the Army, but was too old. Just before Christmas, Ridgeway found six weeks of work at $3.35 an hour on a Christmas tree farm. He doesn't like to recall that until recently he made $30,000 a year...
Carter "has wrapped himself in the American flag, draft registration, and the politics of the cold war," as Alexander Cockburn and James Ridgeway of The Village Voice wrote last week. He has understandably--in the context of the American political system--channeled the confusion to advance his reelection prospects, incapacitating his opponents by playing the "Rose Garden Strategy" and acting "presidential" to perfection. The nationalism has been all-consuming; Americans have forgotten about banalities such as inflation. As The New Republic...