Word: aiming
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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Candidates naturally aim to use the press without being burned by it, but never before have the marketers of candidates so successfully evaded real press scrutiny while staging controlled events that show their candidates to best advantage on television. The Reagan people have had four years of practice at it. Columnist James Reston of the New York Times, who has seen Presidents come and go (he is a few steps short of 75), ruefully describes them as "the best public relations team ever to enter the White House." They got away with cutting presidential press conferences to the fewest...
MULRONEY TOOK DEAD AIM at each of these central propositions. He made the strategic decision that his right wing supporters had nowhere else to go, thereby giving him the luxury of fishing in liberal waters...
...abroad could mean disaster for the union. Even after seeing its membership slide by 20% over the past five years, the union figures to lose 500,000 more industry jobs by 1989 if the auto companies, led by GM, go ahead with their plans. Union leaders, therefore, decided to aim their demands for job security first...
...school. The best example is the National Collegiate Athletic Association's Rule 48, which will require would-be freshman athletes to score at least 700 on their SATs and successfully complete a specifies array of pre-college courses. AT the heart of the issue is the colleges' aim--which is fair--to guard against erosion of academic standards...
...white speckles on a canvas of black, will turn gray-brown. The jet-black head and bill will go dull gray, pale white. The neckbands−brilliant, symmetrical hash marks−will disappear. And so will the loons. Put a telescope on the beaches of North Carolina, or Florida, aim it out to the three-mile marker, near the sea lanes, and there the loons will be, riding the water...