Word: appealling
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...final days before this week's Iowa caucuses, Massachusetts Democrat Michael Dukakis wanted to make a televised, in-depth appeal to the state's elderly voters. Since the message could not be targeted through the national networks, and there was no statewide network, the candidate simply assembled his own custom-made grid of stations. The Dukakis team bought time on local cable channels, rented a broadcast-size dish antenna and made arrangements to use a communications satellite orbiting 22,300 miles over the equator. The patchwork network enabled the candidate to conduct a live call-in show in which...
Deaver's account of his perjury conviction in a case brought by an independent counsel draws some sympathy, but his chronicle of building a lobbying business around his old contacts shows little appreciation of the fine lines of ethics and propriety he crossed. His legal appeal is still in progress, but Behind the Scenes is a clear, if inadvertent, plea of guilt to charges of naivete...
...Dubbed "Red Ken" by the London tabloids, Livingstone, 42, is famous for his unabashed support of leftist causes and for launching indecorous assaults on government officials. He is also, not coincidentally, a major pain in the aspirations of Labor Leader Neil Kinnock, who wants to broaden his party's appeal by staking out more moderate positions. When Prime Minister Margaret Thatcher won a third * five-year term last year, Livingstone and others on Labor's "loony left" got much of the blame for the Conservatives' success...
...committees and faculty will consider when this whole process is over if we should have a capital fund campaign," said Sander. "Alumni would obviously be a major group involved. There would also be an appeal to foundations...
...feel I am innocent. I don't think I did anything wrong," said the 63-year-old Nofziger, whose lawyers vowed to appeal the convictions...