Word: appealling
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...days to appeal the decision to the court. But Walter L. Milne, assistant to the president at MIT, yesterday said the university would...
Though Dukakis had long resisted making such an appeal because of its "divisive" overtones of class war, it is about his only chance now. "He should set up as many 'them vs. us' formulas as he can," says Democratic pollster Peter Hart. Amazingly, it has been the Republicans, led by preppy Bush, who have succeeded in painting Dukakis and his followers as a bunch of Harvard-Brookline liberal elitists. The Democrats' failure to capitalize on latent populist resentment, says a senior Bush campaign aide, "is the biggest surprise of the campaign. They just never figured...
...final, somewhat unexpected hurdle: Ronald Reagan. A number of polls, led by TIME's in late September, show the President's approval ratings rising again into the 60% range. That indicates a mood of public contentment that would be difficult for the most brilliantly planned and executed political appeal to overcome. Dukakis has at last got going, and shortened the odds a bit. The campaign is still alive -- but barely, and even this late infusion of adrenaline may not be enough...
According to a number of Soviet POWs held in northeast Afghanistan, who spoke to TIME, conversions to Islam have seldom, if ever, been made at gunpoint. Nor do they seem to owe much to the spiritual appeal of the Muslim faith. In most cases, isolation, fear and the promise of being socially accepted by their captors have drawn the prisoners to Islam. Beg, Nazaro and other Soviet captives say they are free to make occasional accompanied visits to local bazaars and encouraged to join in volleyball games with off-duty guerrillas. "I became a Muslim once I learned the language...
...latest Jackson controversy reflects the larger Democratic dilemma: how to appeal to alienated white conservatives and increasingly outspoken black voters simultaneously? Dukakis' awkward attempt to straddle the two groups has apparently hurt him with both. The Joint Center for Politics survey that measured the dropoff in black support also found that 39% of Reagan Democrats were less likely to vote for Dukakis because of Jackson's endorsement of him. "The Reagan Democrats are gone," says one top party figure. "They've been gone for years, and there's no getting them back...