Word: appealling
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...February 13, the CIA's Deputy Director for Intelligence, Robert M. Gates, made an unprecedented public appearance at the Kennedy School to appeal for scholars' continued cooperation. Gates also announced that the CIA had revised its rules to give greater freedom to scholars who accept agency funding for research, consulting, or conferences...
...Bulow was convicted of trying to kill his wife two times. Then he called in Dershowitz to appeal the verdict to the Rhode Island Supreme Court. With his hot shot team of lawyers and law students, Dershowitz argued that von Bulow's initial trial had been unfair because defense attorneys had not been given access to certain evidence. Dershowitz also argued that the use of a private investigator to uncover evidence for prosecution could imperil people's liberty from unwarranted searches of their private property. He won on the first argument but not on the second...
...tenant activists, Robert La Tremouille and Michael Turk, have filed a complaint with the rent control commission saying that Harvard's permit to renovate 10 Mt. Auburn is illegal because it will tear up a rent control apartment, and La Tremouille said he is awaiting the results of their appeal to the commission...
Although it is likely that Cuomo would appeal to voters in the urban areas of the Northeast and Midwest, traditional Democratic power bases, both his style and his message may play less well in the South and the Sunbelt, regions that are critical if the party hopes to regain the presidency. Cuomo is still largely unknown in the South and West, to party activists as well as voters...
That is not a hard prescription for Ronald Reagan. To keep moving is his nature. Furthermore, his standing with the public is bolstered by a mighty reserve: Nancy. A special Wirthlin reading on the personal appeal of the big power players, which he dubs the "thermometer rating," with temperatures from 1 to 100, shows the President at 66, Nancy at 65. The nearest Cabinet officer is way down at a chilly...