Word: startingly
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Dates: during 1980-1980
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...week about the abrupt firing of Campaign Manager John Sears. "To someone following the Reagan camp so closely, the departure did not come as a complete sur prise," said Barrett. "Two weeks earlier you could detect a decided cooling of the Reagan-Sears relationship." Barrett therefore had a head start in investigating the shake-up and even managed to inter view William Casey before he was in stalled as Sears' successor. Barrett also found an opportunity to share some of his insights with a newcomer to the Reagan press corps. Just before the big formal an nouncement...
...Bush cannot recover, the logical candidate to stop Reagan would be Howard Baker. He has impressive credentials as a moderate conservative who speaks smoothly and sensibly, and has considerable experience in Washington (he has been a Senator since 1967). But he is suffering severely from a late start and showing little if any talent for campaign organizing. John Anderson's proud independence and stubborn insistence on advocating unpleasant proposals?he hammers away on the need for a 500-per-gal. gasoline tax to reduce energy consumption?have won much favorable media attention and a core of devoted followers...
...reason may be the weather. Like many another Southern Californian, Reagan is far more at ease when he can strip off his suit jacket, as he did two weeks ago on the sun-drenched campus of Palm Beach Junior College in Florida. Cried Reagan: "It is time to start a crash military buildup, to make us so strong that no one will ever again raise a hand against the U.S." The students cheered...
...maintains a hard campaign schedule without feeling any need to exercise or watch his diet. Quite the contrary: he is one of the few politicians who regularly eat the food at banquets, and he complains mildly that he is often called on to speak before he can start on the dessert...
...Ford has talked in the past of waiting for a potential deadlock at the nominating convention, many of the party's pros consider that most unlikely. They also note that the filing deadlines for remaining key primary elections are either past or imminent. Nevertheless, if Ford were to start filing this week in all primaries still open, he would have a chance to win 729, or 36%, of the 1,994 national convention delegates. In addition, more than 400 other delegates are yet to be chosen in state caucuses or state conventions...