Word: brings
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Democrats left their convention united and confident of victory in November, and rightly so. They eloquently presented the case against "Four more years" of Republican rule. And their standard bearer, Gov. Michael S. Dukakis, looked presidential as he promised to help bring "a new era of greatness" to America...
...high-rises or the poverty of those who are sometimes spoken of as living "in the shadow of the buildings." The white residents of most of its neighborhoods have fled to suburban counties, where they prefer traffic jams to participation in an underground transportation system that could bring black people out their way. When all is said and done, Atlanta's economy still has a lot to do with Atlanta's access to places like Valdosta and Meridian and Demopolis -- I have heard the city described as "a bunch of buildings and stuff next to the Atlanta airport...
...boosters still talk about such advantages. But, with the Democratic Convention finally about to bring what they see as certification of Atlanta as a national city, they also have the next stage to worry about: becoming an international city. Actually, there was a period about ten years ago when Atlanta featured as its motto the World's Next Great City, but, an advertising man who had to work with the motto told me, "it had a credibility problem. If you told someone in some place like New York that Atlanta was the World's Next Great City...
...early days of the C.O.D., the Brookliners and their allies ran each other's campaigns, coordinated their movements, agreed on slates to bring their joint efforts to bear for everyone's benefit. Sometimes one would defer to another, as Sumner Kaplan did to Dukakis by opening up his own seat on the legislature for his protege to succeed him in 1963, or when Fran Meaney left another candidate's campaign to help Dukakis. The first break in this code came in 1969 after Dukakis had agreed to run for attorney general against Elliot Richardson while Beryl Cohen, an ally from...
...moments, he had hooked up with a woman named Lib Hatcher, who ran a club in Charlotte called Country City U.S.A. She gave him a job, stood up for him in court, and the judge let Randy go with a warning: "Son, if you come back to my courtroom, bring your toothbrush...