Word: appealling
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...does Mario Cuomo stack up against other Democratic presidential possibilities? To measure his national appeal, TIME commissioned a poll of 1,013 Americans last week by Yankelovich, Clancy, Shulman. Democrats and independents were asked about their familiarity with Cuomo and other political figures, their impression of them, and whom they would prefer right now as a Democratic presidential nominee.* The list included 1984 Presidential Candidates Gary Hart and Jesse Jackson, Arizona Governor Bruce Babbitt, New Jersey Senator Bill Bradley, Delaware Senator Joseph Biden and Missouri Congressman Richard Gephardt, as well as Chrysler Chairman Lee Iacocca and the right-wing fringe...
Both candidates have stronger credentials than a mere appeal to gender. Boosalis, 66, who won 44% of the vote against six opponents, was mayor of Lincoln for eight years, and as director of the department on aging has developed a strong constituency among Nebraska's large elderly population. Orr, 47, who defeated seven opponents with 39% of the vote, was the only G.O.P. candidate with statewide experience. Said she: "This is an opportunity to tell that what we have in Nebraska are open-minded people." The women will vie for the job now held by Bob Kerrey, 42, former companion...
Buthelezi's primary appeal to whites lies in his endorsement of capitalist principles, his commitment to nonviolence and his willingness to resolve the nation's racial differences through compromise. Many South Africans regard him as perhaps the only man, white or black, who can bring about a peaceful end to the hated apartheid system. This very prominence makes him a figure of suspicion and even derision among many militant blacks, who dismiss him as a puppet of the Pretoria government. Even so, all sides agree that the Zulu chief is likely to play a pivotal role in the future...
...narrow sense, analog does also contain more information than digital. The sweep of the second hand defines every possible infinitesimal unit of time. But for most of us that is not the appeal of analog. After all, the extra information is of no use. It whizzes by too fast for the human eye to apprehend. When you ask someone for the time and he answers, "Four fifty-six and thirty-seven seconds," you know he's wearing a digital watch. If the fellow next to you has an analog watch, you might not even have to ask him. You simply...
Puerto Rico, another client, wanted to attack the U.S. Treasury to win special tax breaks. "I said no to that approach," Deaver declared. "I said base the appeal on the President's Caribbean Basin Initiative. No nation has ever proposed doing anything that was wrong in principle. But sometimes they have been wrong about tactics. I help with that...