Word: bring
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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Despite the generally balmy weather in Atlanta, Architect-Developer John Portman loves nothing more than connecting his bombastic towers and atriums with skywalks: one running through Peachtree Center is 640 ft. long. "People moved to the suburbs because they want low anxiety," Portman says. "We must bring them back to the center city. The pedestrian bridge is a part of that." Now, however, Atlanta zoning officials are considering a recommendation by the 300-member Central Area Study group to prohibit further skywalk construction downtown. As the novelty value of skywalks palls and as more cities realize that downtown vitality...
...wrong words bring out the Wright stuff. Scandal-tarred House Speaker Jim Wright desperately wanted to make a speech in prime time. Democratic Party strategists, preferring that the oleaginous convention chairman be an invisible man, reluctantly agreed to relative darkness: ten minutes of non- prime-time oratory...
From The Merchant of Venice to L.A. Law, courtroom scenes have been a staple of drama. Increasingly, trial attorneys like Harpell are consulting actors and drama coaches to bring more theater into the real-life courthouse. In acting seminars across the nation, lawyers are paying $150 or more an hour to learn how to improve their performances before judges and juries. Says Actress Katherine James of Applied Theater Techniques: "Ten years ago, lawyers asked what we could possibly have to teach them. Now they call us up and cry, 'Help...
...only problem with Baker is that he isn't recognized with one state or a certain constituency, and unlike Bentsen, he doesn't bring in a big state or a large constituency. Tennessee is a toss-up with or without Baker, and it doesn't have enough electoral votes to sway the election either...
...Dole, who is from North Carolina, could help in her homestate, South Carolina and Tennessee. She can also help Bush in the Midwest, in states such as Kansas (where she resides), Missouri and Illinois and Iowa. A third advantage of choosing Mrs. Dole is that she can bring in women voters. Especially since Dukakis didn't even consider putting a woman on the ticket...