Word: bradleys
(lookup in dictionary)
(lookup stats)
Dates: during 1980-1989
Sort By: most recent first
(reverse)
When 4,600 Los Angeles bus drivers walked off the job two weeks ago, stranding 600,000 commuters, Mayor Tom Bradley, the Democratic candidate for California Governor, canceled campaign appearances so he could sit in on the contract talks. Five days later the drivers were back at work. As he has many times in the past, Bradley emerged from the dustup as a soft-spoken conciliator who knows how to keep the wheels of government turning. His Republican rival, California Attorney General George Deukmejian, promptly accused Bradley's labor allies of arranging the walkout for the mayor...
...policies to promote economic growth. The neoliberals are also called high-tech Democrats, for their emphasis on steering the economy away from troubled industries like automobiles and steel to high-technology firms specializing in microchips and computers.* They include Senators Gary Hart of Colorado, Paul Tsongas of Massachusetts, Bill Bradley of New Jersey and Congressmen Panetta and Richard Gephardt of Missouri...
...Deukmejian had been a floor leader for Reagan when he was California's Governor; for another, it was discovered that Curb failed to register to vote until he was 29 and thus missed two chances to cast ballots for Reagan as Governor. The Democratic gubernatorial winner was Tom Bradley, 64, mayor of Los Angeles since 1973, who, if successful, would become the first elected black Governor in U.S. history...
...Jeffrey Bell, and will be the Republican nominee for the Senate seat vacated by the resignation of Democrat Harrison Williams after his Abscam conviction. Bell, 38, a onetime Reagan speechwriter who defeated four-term Senator Clifford Case in the 1978 primary only to lose the general election to Bill Bradley, spent nearly three times as much as Fenwick ($2 million, vs. $700,000) and accused her of being too liberal. Fenwick, 72, a pipe-smoking four-termer who has never lost an election, is an old-line Republican whose TV ads insisted that she "stands with Reagan." Her Democratic opponent...
...Jill M. Bradley...