Word: slides
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...issues have been obscured in the race by mud as thick as a Los Angeles slide. Dornan is an expert slinger; he has called Peck "a sick, pompous little ass" who is a "Daddy's boy looking for something to do." Early in the campaign, Dornan charged that Peck in 1978 accepted an illegal campaign contribution from an Alabama businessman who is in federal prison for fraud. The charge backfired: the businessman did try to contribute $13,000, but Peck eventually returned the checks. Peck faults Dornan for his membership, now terminated, on the advisory board of the right...
...come to make vast and probably unrealistic demands on the presidency. Anyone occupying the White House during the past four years would have found his leadership shaken and shaped by events over which he had virtually no control: the relative decline of American strength in the world; the slide in productivity and innovation in the American economy; the lessening of American willingness to compromise and horse-trade; the dramatic growth of lobbies and special interest groups; the evolving independence of Congress. In this environment, to make matters worse, Carter came to office more a dreamer than a realist...
Domestic considerations argue against Reagan as well. In the rush to increase defense spending and balance the budget, money for food stamps, for housing assistance, and for tuition loans will slide off the back of the Laffer curve into oblivion. More disturbing still is the Reagan pledge to trim government regulation drastically; should he succeed, it will mean the sacrifice of 40 years of progress, a return to the days when the nation's Hooker Chemicals searched for Love Canals, a return to the era when job safety was regarded as a socialistic measure interfering with productivity...
...101st Cavalry, a proud and dashing outfit that in 1916 chased Pancho Villa across Mexico. The horses were replaced by tanks in 1942, but a certain amount of cavalry elan persists. Thoughts of home and work are replaced by simpler concerns -food, a cigarette, a breakdown ahead. Vocabularies slide easily into the four-letter Anglo-Saxon mode. At dusk, when the group rolls into Fort Drum, the barracks area is like a class reunion as men greet one another after a year apart...
Granville's gaudiness offends many stock market professionals, although they have to recognize his good track record. Some charge that he has turned the investment advisory service into cheap entertainment. Granville often conveniently forgets that he was unabashedly bullish during the long market slide of 1973 and 1974. Says one critic: "Joe gives the appearance of being infallible. The next time he is wrong, he'll take a lot of unsophisticated investors down with...