Word: startingly
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Dates: during 1980-1980
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Against the Tar Heels, Judge started in goal and was tested almost right from the start, as North Carolina scored only four minutes into the game to grab a quick 1-0 lead...
Indeed, to achieve his triumph, Regan had to break most of the unwritten rules about White House eligibility . At the start of the year, he was widely considered too old, and his background as a movie star too frivolous, for the Oval Office. Above all, he was thought too conservative. Even last spring, as Regan was sweeping aside a crowd of rivals in one Republican primary after another. Gerald Ford was grumbling that "a very conservative Republican [he did not have to say whom he meant] cannot be elected...
...transition. But I would like immediately to get into the things that I think could begin to turn the economic situation around, such as elimination of excessive and unnecessary regulations. I would like to offer some legislative proposals principally aimed at the economy-including tax proposals. And start work on reducing the size of Government. One of the first things I want to do is issue an Executive order putting a freeze on the hiring of employees to replace those who leave Government service...
...real recovery of the Democratic Party will have to begin with leadership. The two clear contenders in the next four years are Edward Kennedy and Walter Mondale, although each talks vaguely and modestly of his future. "They'll both start running for '84," said one Carter aide, "and it will be great for party fund raising, because they'll vie to see who goes to more Jefferson-Jackson Day dinners." Both Kennedy and Mondale have built up substantial political IOUs this year. Mondale's dogged and solitary stumping around the nation for Carter has built...
Another Reagan defense aide stressed that it was too early to tell. "I know it's a very topical issue on college campuses," he said, "but you've got to start changing the government before you start changing policy...