Word: anyways
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...been feeling kind of good lately, too. I finally got that Bill Safire off my back. He was giving me a hard time in his Times column just because I was running my family business. Those Reagan boys never told me collecting outside money was a conflict of interest. Anyway, I just resigned from the company...
...Bush solo, the candidate often free-lanced by adopting a nonconfrontational technique. "Baker would call him on the plane and get him to change some line or another," says a Baker associate. "Bush would say, 'O.K., Jimmy, right,' and then go and do what he wanted to do anyway...
...were almost over when I called it the Me decade. I don't deal in predictions, but you appeal to my vanity, so I'll talk about it anyway. I think that in the '90s we'll probably see a good bit of relearning, even though it might seem boring. It's in the attitudes of college students now. I sense they are already voluntarily putting the brakes on the sexual revolution -- not screeching to a halt, and not just because of AIDS...
...scored big points with his tough stance on capital punishment. He supported it on the stump, in the debates, and through anticrime TV ads trumpeting his belief in the death penalty. The ads harped on Michael Dukakis' opposition to capital punishment, a position Dukakis was not shy about proclaiming anyway. The death penalty is a useful issue for any politician who believes that voltage wins votes. It works in a campaign, but on a different level, many Americans have clearly not come to terms with legalized killing. Politicians are not distinguishing themselves by the way they face this moral dilemma...
...prisoner. Despite pleas that her sentence be commuted so she could continue her Christian counseling work with fellow prisoners, she was put to death that November. It was commonly believed that failing to execute the woman would have had dire political consequences for Hunt in the race he lost anyway. When Ed Koch ran for mayor of New York City in the Democratic primary against Mario Cuomo in 1977, the cutting issue was the death penalty. Even though the mayor of a city has nothing to do with the administration of justice, Koch whipped up passions over the electric-chair...