Word: bradleys
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...threats against Central Americans prompted Los Angeles Mayor Tom Bradley to denounce the terrorists last week and offer a $10,000 reward for information leading to their conviction. "If we don't stop it here, San Francisco, Chicago, Miami and Washington, D.C., will be next," warned Bradley. His words did not reassure many refugees, who fear they may become the next target for the death squads. Said a 28-year-old Salvadoran: "If they want you, they will find you, even here...
...week's end it was clear that the star had fallen. The surprise was particularly rude in Los Angeles, where Minkow had won some influential admirers -- including Mayor Tom Bradley -- for his community involvement. The entrepreneur coached a local softball team, campaigned against alcohol abuse and spoke out against the use of drugs. Indeed, the charge of drug-money laundering was especially strange, since he had asked his employees to take drug tests and adopted the motto "My act is clean, how's yours...
...hymnal? No, just a few of the burns inflicted by Democrats on one another last week at a dinner sponsored by Independent Action, a liberal political-action committee. The original idea was engagingly ironic. The seven Democratic presidential candidates would feast on the foibles of New Jersey Senator Bill Bradley, the popular recalcitrant whose internal clock says 1988 is not his time. The Seven Dwarfs take on the big guy. But the celebrity roast became a multilateral immolation, as if each candidate wanted to keep his rivals short...
...liners and aimed none at himself. "It took me too long," he noted with a touch of seriousness, "to be taken seriously." He rejected outright any leveling metaphor -- especially dwarfs. "I'm Rudolph," he said. "These are the six reindeer." Then he spun a parable about Bradley's "fight against racial stereotyping." Said Jackson: "We all know the Bill Bradley story -- how the young white man from the right side of the tracks dreamed of one day becoming a professional basketball player...
Dukakis, precise and methodical, fired small-caliber slugs at minor targets, such as the lack of charisma he and Bradley share. "The fact of the matter is that I've been coming on charismatic the last month or two," said Dukakis. "I've learned everything I know from Bill Bradley." Bruce Babbitt demonstrated his yen for subtle complexity by playing off Jimmy Carter, with whom he is sometimes compared, and Gephardt, whom he must beat in Iowa. Like Carter, he deadpanned, he discusses issues with his children. Babbitt quoted his nine-year-old son as saying, "Dad, you've really...