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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...national ticket in order to avoid a liberal taint. Jon Mills, speaker of the Florida state assembly, warns that Dukakis "has to show us that he isn't just another northeastern liberal. He's going to have to give us some material to work with." Texas Democratic Chairman Bob Slagle, a Gore supporter, fears that Jackson will nail even more left-wing planks into the platform than were there in 1984. "If Dukakis gets pictured as soft on defense," says Slagle, "he's in a ton of trouble down here." Slagle's solution: lure Georgia Senator Sam Nunn onto...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Marathon Man | 5/2/1988 | See Source »

Freshman centerfielder Marcel Durand, batting in the leadoff slot for Harvard, unloaded three hits and knocked in a run. Fellow Yardling Bob Bincarousky's two-RBI single in the eighth was more than enough to inter the terrible Techies...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Batsmen Smite MIT, 11-2 | 4/28/1988 | See Source »

Reagan renewed his veto threat and promised to work later for a milder version in a letter Tuesday to Senate Minority Leader Bob Dole of Kansas...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Senate Passes Trade Bill by Wide Margin | 4/28/1988 | See Source »

Damon threw few enough pitches that Penn Head Coach Bob Seddon elected to start the sophomore in the nightcap...

Author: By Jonathan E. Benjamin, | Title: Crimson Bats Silenced as Penn Sweeps | 4/26/1988 | See Source »

...effect of the Democrats' antidrug homilies may be little more than saying "Me too." Democratic Political Consultant Bob Shrum calls drugs a "valence" issue -- one that supersedes more routine concerns. Traditionally, Republicans have been perceived as the party of law-and-order and international machismo. But the drug issue gives Democrats a way of denouncing crime and declining social values without sacrificing the virtues of compassion. And it is already serving to help the Democrats strike emotional chords in voters who have mostly been unmoved by the 1988 primaries...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Riding The Drug Issue | 4/25/1988 | See Source »

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