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...offensive success that Harvard has been enjoying this season has been spread around the team. Johnston is the latest Crimson player to hop on the scoring bandwagon...

Author: By Colin F. Boyle, | Title: W. Booters Grease Friars, 1-0 | 9/28/1988 | See Source »

...course, I immediately assumed that DuPont was being the quintessential opportunist. After all, any Republican would love to break the Democratic Party's grip on the poor and Black votes. Why not jump on the Jackson bandwagon and ride for all it's worth...

Author: By Neil A. Cooper, | Title: Compassionate Comparisons | 9/26/1988 | See Source »

...other. "It is a game of perceptions," says a Western diplomat in Moscow. "If afterward the perception is that the conservatives have scored some points, it will be a setback for Gorbachev. If the perception is that perestroika is irreversible, a lot of fence sitters will join Gorbachev's bandwagon...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Soviet Union The First Hurrah | 6/27/1988 | See Source »

...applied them to the organization of the conference. Perhaps surprisingly for a man who was born in the closed society of Stalin and rose to prominence in the closed-minded society of Leonid Brezhnev, Gorbachev knows about the straw man, the trial balloon and the bandwagon effect, and has used them in a subtle and effective campaign to make sure that he can win next week's game of perceptions...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Soviet Union The First Hurrah | 6/27/1988 | See Source »

...bandwagon Gorbachev tows to the conference is crowded. Part of his political success lies in the fact that he has made room for nearly everybody, from the redoubtable dissident Andrei Sakharov to Russian Orthodox priests to downtrodden workingwomen. Perhaps the only major category of citizenry not invited aboard consists of habitual tipplers, who have been driven to moonshine, cologne cocktails and sullen anger over Gorbachev's anti-alcoholism campaign...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Soviet Union The First Hurrah | 6/27/1988 | See Source »

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