Word: booth
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...before a faded, gold-framed picture of F.D.R. and addresses her newly inducted shock troops. "There are 125,000 unregistered voters in this county that we need to reach," she says solemnly. The crowd cheers as she introduces a young volunteer who has already registered 200 voters at his booth in front of a Wal-Mart store. Maue asks, "Did anyone go to the German Festival?" Embarrassed silence. "Too bad. That would have been a good place to wear your buttons and T shirts...
Washington: Stanley W. Cloud, Margaret Carlson, Ann Blackman, Michael Duffy, Dan Goodgame, Ted Gup, S.C. Gwynne, Julie Johnson, J.F.O. McAllister, Jay Peterzell, Elaine Shannon, Dick Thompson, Nancy Traver Boston: Sam Allis Chicago: Jon D. Hull, Elizabeth Taylor Detroit: William McWhirter Atlanta: Michael Riley Houston: Richard Woodbury Miami: Cathy Booth Los Angeles: Jordan Bonfante, Jeanne McDowell, Sylvester Monroe, James Willwerth, Sally B. Donnelly San Francisco: David S. Jackson...
Gerg P. Long, 22, lives in Dorchester but is working part time as a parking attendant at a lot between Harvard and Central Squares. From his post inside the booth at the lot's entrance, Long says he plans to vote for Bush...
...issue posed by the '92 Games is not the coverage's quality. (The judging from here: a respectable bronze medal for Bob Costas' cool authority in the anchor booth and those welcome stretches of silence from the gymnastics commentators during crucial routines.) The issue is quantity. NBC scheduled a typically excessive 161 hours of coverage over the Olympics fortnight. In addition, the network put together an elaborate pay-per-view package: three additional channels of events, running 24 hours a day (12 of them live). Cost: a hefty $125 for the 15-day package...
...least 20 points. "At the rate we're going we may end up having to do the McGovern spot," says a Republican consultant. At the end of his disastrous 1972 campaign, George McGovern ran a TV commercial in which a conflicted citizen considered his choice in the voting booth: "Either way it won't be a disaster," the man muttered to himself. "So I'll be voting for Nixon. Why rock the boat? I'm not crazy about McGovern . . . But me vote for Nixon? . . . My father would roll over in his grave . . . Maybe McGovern can do the job . . . Yeah, McGovern...