Word: airport
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...tech campaigns of the past, candidates boosted their visibility primarily by flying tarmac to tarmac, working the crowds, and lining up newspaper and TV coverage from the airport. But this is Campaign '88, in which the strength of a presidential candidate's political machine is closely tied to the sophistication of his technological tools. This year's race involves an oversize field of candidates who are scrambling to gain recognition across a wide geographic swath in just a few weeks. That puts a premium on any technology that will increase a campaign's reach -- even if it leaves less time...
...wells operate within sight of the runways at Calgary International Airport. At Coconut Joe's, the joint with the concrete palm trees out front, a favorite drink is root-beer schnapps. And in what passes for subtlety, the two Olympic mascots, male and female bears, are named Howdy and Hidy. Get it? First settled in 1875 by a band of men on horseback representing the North- West Mounted Police, Calgary today looks nearly brand new. Credit that to oil, which lies beneath the surrounding prairie in vast pools and has made a passel of folks as rich as the Ewings...
...pork-barrel expenditures included in the last omnibus spending bill, signed just before winter recess, range from the slightly humorous--$240,000 for a study of the damage done to macademia nuts by rats--to the seriously expensive--$25 million for an unneeded new airport in Fort Worth near the home territory Speaker of the House Jim Wright. In the several-thousand pages of an omnibus appropriations bill, these expenditures can be shielded from constituents, and congressmen can hide their support for these perks by claiming that they voted for the whole package, not individual appropriations...
...testy candidate to cut her off. While he was chatting with a group of locals in a New Hampshire diner recently, she bombarded him with questions about what he wanted for breakfast. "Anything," Gary said. "Porridge or doughnuts?" she asked. "Anything, babe," he replied tersely. At O'Hare Airport that evening, Hart became hopelessly lost while searching for the right baggage-claim carrousel. As the couple and a small group of reporters wandered aimlessly around the terminal, Lee could not resist taunting her husband, "You're not showing leadership, Gary." She even repeated the wisecrack for the reporters' benefit. Later...
...hoping to fulfill a career-long dream of seeing his books at airport newsstands, Stephen is putting the finishing touches on A Brief History of Time (Bantam), a popular nonmathematical account that will be published in April. "Someone told me that each equation I included in the book would halve the sales," says Hawking. "In the end, however, I did put in Einstein's famous equation E = m c squared. I hope that this will not scare off half my potential readers...