Word: appealling
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...their part to trim the nomination race down to a more reasonable size. Massachusetts Gov. Michael Dukakis, Rep. Richard Gephardt (D.-Mo.), and Sen. Paul Simon (D.-III.) came out as frontrunners. With a commendable fourth-place showing, Rev. Jesse Jackson proved once and for all that his appeal was not limited to Blacks. Meanwhile, the caucus-goers effectively eliminated two men whose presence only obscured the Democratic field, former Arizona Gov. Bruce Babbitt and former Colorado Sen. Gary Hart. Thanks to the Iowans, the Democratic party can now sport a few candidates who have received someone's stamp...
...because the Iowa caucus was just that--held in Iowa and in the form of a caucus, instead of a primary vote. Richard Thornburgh, Institute of Politics director and former Pennsylvania Governor, said that Dole's victory may have been more representative of his Midwestern support than his national appeal...
Despite his wealth, Icahn is not about to be distracted from the chase by a taste for rich people's toys. Says he: "Yachts and fleets of limousines and private airplanes don't appeal to me at all. I want a comfortable life. What's the point of all that hassle?" The only son of a New York City schoolteacher and a lawyer, Icahn was the first student from Far Rockaway High School in Queens to be accepted by Princeton, where he studied philosophy. His mother worried about his future when he dropped out of medical school...
From which development (and other concessions wrung out of the Sandinistas by the contras) Hamilton concludes that the contras should now be cut off. Such a leap of illogic can only be achieved by appeal to the sacred text of the Arias plan. The contras have gathered support, established their legitimacy and forced open some political space. Why then destroy them? Because the "Central Americans" wish...
...national security no prosecutions would be brought against a group of Ulster police officers involved in the killing of six Catholic civilians in 1982 and 1983. Dublin had expected an investigation into allegations that police were covering up a "shoot to kill" order. Then British jurists dismissed an appeal by six Catholics from Northern Ireland convicted in the 1974 bombing of two Birmingham bars in which 21 people died. In Ireland, the men were believed to have been railroaded...