Word: bobbed
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...restraint and reason in arriving at most decisions seem to count for a lot. It could also be that Bush's very commonness is his virtuosity -- common decency, common courtesy, common interests and common sense. Before he sat down last week to talk nukes with Australia's Prime Minister Bob Hawke, the President hacked around the scruffy Andrews Air Force Base golf course in suffocating heat. True, he had enjoyed roast saddle of veal Perigourdine at the state dinner, but by Wednesday he was off in Baltimore, downing a hot dog, some Maryland crab cakes and vanilla ice cream with...
Official Washington too was caught up in the paroxysms of patriotism. The Senate voted 97-to-3 for a resolution by majority leader George Mitchell and minority leader Bob Dole that expressed "profound disappointment" in the decision. "I will join the efforts of other members of Congress in rectifying this action, including supporting a constitutional amendment, if necessary," Georgia Democrat Sam Nunn declared...
...sponsored by an unlikely pair: liberal Democratic Senator Christopher Dodd of Connecticut and the archconservative Republican Orrin Hatch of Utah. Hatch has been vilified as a traitor by conservatives for supporting the bill, which Senate Republican leader Bob Dole denounces as a "money-eating bureaucratic sinkhole." He attacks ABC provisions that would encourage state governments to establish standards for day-care centers as an unwarranted intrusion by Washington. Hatch counters by insisting that conservatives should be as responsive as liberals to the needs of families. Says he: "Should we continue to ignore the problem just because some...
...industry win all earlier elections: the proposition that nuclear power is cheaper than conventional power. The Sacramento plant produced only 40% as much electricity as expected, and its output cost twice as much as that bought on the conventional market. One result was a doubling of electricity rates. Said Bob Mulholland, who headed the campaign to close Rancho Seco: "It's the first time the debate over a nuclear plant has focused on economics rather than safety. It doesn't mean that others will vote to close plants, but it does mean the nation will take notice...
...what if it was someone else's? The year before, a muscle-bound man from Krypton had landed in the pages of rival Action Comics and become an instant icon of pop culture. Sullivan may not have owned Superman, but he could clone it. He called in cartoonist Bob Kane, then 18, and asked for a similar "super-duper" character. Kane went home, tossed the movies The Mark of Zorro and The Bat Whispers into an imaginary blender with Leonardo da Vinci's flying machine, and dreamed up Batman. The whole process took a few days...