Word: appealling
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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Bentsen, the Democratic vice presidential candidate, told a television interviewer he thought the Bush campaign was making a racist appeal by focusing on Willie Horton Jr., a Black convicted murderer who escaped in 1986 from a Massachusetts prison furlough...
Asked if use of the Horton case constituted "an element of Republican racist appeal," Bentsen replied: "When you add it up, I think there is, and that's unfortunate, and I just don't want to see this election won on that kind of packaging and that kind of distortions...
...compel Krischer to provide the name. But state circuit-court Judge Timothy Poulton ruled that under Florida statutes protecting lawyer-client relationships, Krischer could keep mum. It was hard to rule against the parents, said the judge, "but I am convinced the law requires it." The Baltes vowed to appeal...
Improved Government policies can only make a start on solving the trade dilemma. What is needed is a change in national direction. Long ago, Henry Ford lost his appeal as a role model, and interest in manufacturing faded. Services became the wave of the future, and law and investment banking became the prestige careers. America is paying the price for the increasingly unproductive orientation of its top talent...
Pinochet nevertheless emerged from last week's ballot in a relatively strong position. By winning 43% of the vote, he showed broader popular appeal than opposition polls had indicated -- a considerable achievement for a dictator after 15 years in power. Said Labor Minister Alfonso Marquez de la Plata: "The plebiscite was a personal triumph for the President and an electoral defeat for his collaborators. It's a clear demonstration that he enjoys a great deal of civilian support...