Word: started
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Dates: during 1980-1980
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...even massive Republican fecklessness in the next four years would not automatically restore the Democrats to their previous vigor. To start, they must bring back at least a degree of party discipline, perhaps by partly undoing the 1972 reforms. They must somehow escape their orthodoxies and old incantations, a tendency toward reflexive liberalism that faces problems by creating Government agencies and printing more money to pay for them. Democratic Senator Daniel Patrick Moynihan of New York wrote tellingly last summer: "Of a sudden, the G.O.P. has become a party of ideas...
Another basic problem, compounded by the fact that he started in April, far too late, was that Anderson necessarily had to run as an independent because he had no time to organize a third party, which would have given him a supporting framework. Says California Pollster Mervin Field: "Anderson was suddenly thrust into the arena and asked to play major league ball without a team and without preseason conditioning." Altering the metaphor, Campaign Director David Garth says, "It was like they gave us a moped and told us to race against two Maseratis. But I still think it wasn...
Wang, who has been an American citizen since 1955, is now about to start operation in the land of his birth. He is currently negotiating with the People's Republic of China on a joint venture to produce small computers in Nanjing. Having heard of Wang's spectacular record, Chinese bureaucrats are already planning on $4 million to $5 million worth of production in the project's first year, and a 60% annual growth rate thereafter...
MuseAir is another of the cut-rate airlines spawned by deregulation of the industry. Next month, New York Air, a new subsidiary of Texas International, will start providing 18 flights a day along the New York City to Washington, D.C., corridor in direct competition with the busy Eastern Air Lines shuttle. And People Express next year will begin service to six cities out of Newark...
...disease." Like anorectics, some bulimarectics seem to come from homes where food was important and therefore a focal point for power struggles and gibes about weight. Anorectics are mostly shy, withdrawn females who develop their symptoms around the onset of puberty. Bulimarectics tend to be extraverted, successful perfectionists who start the gorging behavior in their late teens, and often have trouble seeing their problem as more than an idiosyncrasy-one reason why it is so little known to the public. Anorectics are cadaverously thin, while bulimarectics generally weigh in at normal levels...