Given the record of American unions over the last 15 years, the conservative political climate, baseball's current agenda, it could have been worse.

In the conservative climate of the time, the purchase created a political and media scandal.

We are living in such a conservative climate that what he did 25 years ago still seems radical.

The recent conservative political climate may even have exaggerated the Puritanical impulses.

One factor in this is the conservative religious climate.

McDonell said the decision to make the offer explicit for the 42nd annual issue was not a reaction to a more conservative climate.

It was unlikely that there would be innovative ideas about God in this conservative climate or, indeed, anything else.

"Have they been reminding you of the current conservative climate, too?"

Was the literature of the 50's in some sense enhanced by the politically conservative climate?