Word: behind
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...Blame Us: People have criticized and second-guessed the U.S. Olympic team in many ways. Even Juan Antonio Samaranch, president of the International Olympic Committee, had his say-so about how the U.S., on offense, had "three people behind...
...responsibility of young, educated Blacks to at least attempt to understand the circumstances of their peers who didn't have such an opportunity. Some Black college students today are lucky enough to have two generations of graduates behind them, but many are not. The movie made the point that Black students today should not be quick to put down other Blacks for their lack of educational opportunity...
During the 1987 legislative session a Gay Rights Bill--having passed the Massachusetts House--was stalled in a Senate committee and kept from the full body, which was expected to approve it. Although he threw quiet support behind the bill, Dukakis--who was campaigning in Iowa--refused to take an active roll in salvaging it and let it die in committee...
...from the seat-of-the-pants, roller-coaster operation of 1984. The dilapidated Lockheed Electra turboprop (which later crashed) has been replaced by a DC-9, complete with computers. Schedules, just vague advisories in the last campaign, which ran on Jesse Jackson time (three hours behind all known time zones), are sometimes adhered to. Church choirs warming up the crowd are still crucial, but now so are the hard-nosed strategists busily color-coding districts on wall-size maps. "Eighty-four was a crusade," says Ann Lewis, a longtime Democratic Party pro. "This is a real campaign...
...spent his winters in an eighth-floor apartment in the old Fairfax Hotel on Washington's Massachusetts Avenue. In the summers he would let his energy explode on his dad's farm in Carthage, where there were a collie named Buff and fish in the pond. Young Al hid behind the apartment doors in 1960 to listen to his father and friends help plot the campaign strategy for Kennedy. Neither Harvard nor those 500 farm acres in Tennessee could turn his head. Politics enticed him back to the Capitol...