Word: austin
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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Though Bentsen claimed that his J.F.K. line was spontaneous, it had been germinating for days. The weekend before the debate, the Bentsen camp descended on Austin for practice sessions. In a vacant basement bar adjacent to the Four Seasons Hotel, they set up a mock debate stage. Congressman Dennis Eckart, a golf tee stuck jauntily behind one ear, played Quayle. But Bentsen was nervous; he was not having fun. (They did not realize it at the time, but Bentsen aides mistakenly positioned him at the wrong lectern.) Then at one point Eckart, playing Quayle, compared himself to Kennedy. Bentsen became...
...Feeling good," said Bentsen, while walking from a practice studio to his hotel in Austin, Texas...
Dukakis campaign manager Susan Estrich, who was in Austin helping Bentsen, said, "We're not teaching him new positions on issues...I think that's what the Quayle people have...
...complaint, Fox Tree is "accusing Frank Gifune, who is chairman of the Austin School in Reading, along with the Phi Delta Kappa graduate school of Harvard University" with discrimination in their decision to reelect current President Roseann Stephens, said MCAD official Francisco Villalobos. It is unusual for a president to serve two terms, several members said...
Persuaded that the critical U.S. semiconductor and computer industries need special help, the Reagan Administration has permitted the formation of two experimental consortiums, Sematech and the Microelectronics and Computer Technology Corp. (MCC), both based in Austin. Since 1983, 19 major computer manufacturers, including Control Data, Digital Equipment and Honeywell, have pooled advanced research efforts through MCC. More than 70 new advances developed by MCC are now being refined by member firms...