Word: beare
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...campaign for the Presidency, Bush relied heavily on "hot button" issues--the pledge of allegiance and prison furloughs--that carry great emotional appeal, but bear little relevance to Presidential leadership. He avoided pushing specific policy proposals, save for a few trivial programs such as his college savings plan...
...tough," Reidy said. "We're 2-6. I don't think beating Penn and Yale [November 19] will salvage our season. I think it would make the off-season a little easier to bear...
...Bush Campaign has pointed repeatedly to Dukakis' Harvard ties as evidence that the governor is so liberal as to be outside the American mainstream. The results of The Crimson poll seem to bear out this charge. Thirty-eight percent of Harvard undergraduates surveyed called them-selves liberals. About 44 percent of all students said they held moderate beliefs, and only 17 percent referred to themselves as conservatives, the poll showed...
...character who grows and doesn't just calcify, Lange brings wily zest to each step in Babs' coming-out party. She can toss dewy-eyed soul into a line like "I just want to be Mrs. Gavin Grey" -- all ardor, no condescension. She can bear, with a smoldering fuse, the later ordeal of player's wife and baby factory. She can tease Donnie while ironizing her flirtation: "It's every Southern mama's legacy to her daughter." She can seize control of her own life and still stand by her man. Gavin may have embodied, as the film suggests, "everything...
...more interesting as President than he ever was as candidate. By nature a peripatetic tinkerer, Dukakis has undoubtedly fantasized about how he would tackle problems like the homeless without creating expensive federal bureaucracies. But he either refuses or is unable to articulate his vision. His most ambitious campaign proposals bear Dukakis' characteristic stamp of liberalism on the cheap. He would mandate that employers provide health insurance and covertly pass along the costs to consumers in the form of higher prices. In a technical sense, Dukakis' college-loan proposal is a wonder to behold: graduates would repay the money...