Word: supportiveness
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...least for the moment. In December a poll by the Des Moines Register-Tribune showed Reagan the choice of 50% of the G.O.P. voters. George Bush was favored by 14%, John Connally by 12% and Howard Baker by 11%. Last week's survey indicated that Reagan's support had been cut to 26%. Some 58% said they felt that his absence from the session had hurt him. Bush rose to 17%, Baker to 18%, and Connally...
...Sears gambled and lived to regret it. He persuaded Reagan to announce before the G.O.P. convention that his choice as his vice-presidential running mate would be Pennsylvania Senator Richard Schweiker, whose liberal image on some issues cost the Californian support in his close but losing fight with Gerald Ford. This time Sears has resolved to be much more cautious. Says he: "Each campaign is an original. The game goes to the one who recognizes the changes and knows how to act on them...
...nobody there with whom we can get in touch." He questioned Khomeini's ability to control the "international terrorists or the kidnapers who are holding our hostages." Echoing that view, one senior State Department official told reporters that "these terrorists are swimming in a sea of support from the Iranian government and people." The goal of the sanctions strategy, he explained, was "to separate them from that support...
...since become general manager of the New Orleans Saints, chose not to sit in the owners' box for the Rams' games. He grew a beard, wore a hat lettered "Mack Trucks" and sat in the stands to watch his old team in action. The players registered their support of Rosenbloom fils by calling him into the dressing room to receive a game ball after one exhibition victory and then demanded -and got-a meeting with Mrs. Rosenbloom in which she assured them that their jobs, and those of their coaches, were secure...
...gallon of ethanol can be as much as $1.70 vs. about 85? for premium unleaded gas; at the pumps, gasohol typically retails for 6? to 8? more even with the federal tax advantage. Adding together the costs of the new program, the tax breaks and several existing gasohol support programs in place at the Departments of Energy, Commerce and Agriculture and the Small Business Administration, the Administration's entire support package will cost between $8.5 billion and $12.8 billion in the current decade...