Word: targeting
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Dates: during 1980-1980
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...built for himself. "He's a man," says G.B. Trudeau's Rick Redfern in yesterday's Doonesbury, "who takes positions not because he believes in them, but because someone told him he had to have a few to run for president." What Democrats don't want is an easy target. And with that kind of sentiment prevailing, Jerry Brown isn't going anywhere but back to Sacramento...
...afterward CBS yanked Rather from the White House, then occupied by Gerald Ford, and the speculation surrounding that move centered on the propriety of Rather's Houston response: Had he stood up to the President or had he sassed him? Yet Nixon's question was oddly on target. Rather was indeed running for something that night, had been running for it all of his adult life, and would continue to do so long after Nixon resigned. He made his goal perfectly clear to the network executives bidding for his services: "I'd like to lead...
...right on target. From the 5.8's the Communist bloc dished out to them like candy, to the more reserved 5.5's the North American judges gave them, his predictions were impeccable...
...beat, but he is not invincible. If Kennedy can hang onto his campaign sled in the snows of Maine and New Hampshire, events might turn his way. A two-man Democratic race might be an advantage to the party at this stage. A Kennedy dropout would leave a single target for Republican snipers. But Kennedy has not quit, and his staff remains focussed on the domestic issues that will rise to the fore with a break on the international scene. As they say in politics, it ain't over yet. Hang on to your convention tickets...
...Insofar as struggles do occur within the Politburo, they are purely personal; they cannot be used for diplomatic leverage. The average Soviet citizen, deprived though he is of information about the world and of the benefits of Western Kremlinology, understands this perfectly well. Illiterate Afghan herdsmen are equally on target when they burn portraits of Marx and Lenin, instead of accepting the tale that their country was occupied simply because Leonid Brezhnev happened to be ailing...