Word: appealling
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...campaign trail, he remains a dispassionate figure who has sparked little excitement. On the stump in Iowa, he tells voters that they must choose the person they trust the most. But even as he works to personalize the race with a what-a-nice-young-man appeal, Gephardt remains the candidate in the plain vanilla wrapper...
Last week a federal district judge in Baltimore overturned his conviction. Judge Frederic Smalkin based his opinion on a Supreme Court ruling last June that the federal mail-fraud statute should not be invoked in cases of government corruption. If upheld on appeal, the decision could clear Mandel's criminal record and compensate the former Governor and his co-defendants for thousands of dollars in fines...
...moving on the budget deficit. Declared West Germany's Finance Minister, Gerhard Stoltenberg: "The center is Washington. That's where the difficulties are coming from." In the U.S., a group of more than 150 business leaders, lawyers, educators and former Cabinet members, calling themselves the Bipartisan Budget Appeal, took out a two-page advertisement in the New York Times and the Washington Post to demand spending cuts of at least $30 billion to $40 billion in fiscal 1988. Said the group, which included a range of prominent liberals (Edmund Muskie) as well as conservatives (William Simon): "We recognize that...
...spokeswoman for the Women's Legal Defense Fund. "It says to men that there are some circumstances in which you are justified in physically abusing your wife or girlfriend." The National Coalition against Domestic Violence and NOW are among the groups supporting Chalotte Fedders and helping to finance her appeal...
Indeed, the basis for Simon's current appeal is the very thing that could % prove his undoing: his frequent claims that "more than any other candidate I have demonstrated that I am willing to do what's unpopular." His sartorial and ideological independence, along with his fealty to the old-time Democratic religion, can do little more than grant him his 15 minutes of celebrity. To become President, he must make sure that these go-it-alone traits do not begin to seem like studied eccentricity, wearisome piety and philosophical quaintness...