Word: broads
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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From the outside, the brick-faced building looked like any other shop in prosperous, suburban Stamford, Conn. Above the broad plate-glass window, a large painted sign read simply PERSIAN RUGS. But inside there were no customers looking at the dusty piles of carpets. Instead, behind a curtain in the rear of the shop, telex machines, shortwave radios and computerized communications gear hummed continuously. Business was brisk, and it had nothing to do with rugs. The shop was a front for the illegal sale of U.S.-made weapons and aircraft parts to the government of Iran's Ayatullah Ruhollah...
Irons' responsibilities will not be as broad as those of his predecessor, Jackson, who served as associate dean and was a close confidante of Dean Graham T. Allison '62. Irons will handle publications and public relations, but will not oversee construction of the new K-School wing or head the K-School's affirmative action program as Jackson...
...farmer and loyal Democrat. Mondale, he said disparagingly, was "an establishment politician," but he noted of Glenn: "I like his sincerity." Rather than emphasizing specific issues or making promises to special constituencies, Glenn has concentrated on evoking a sense of traditional values that he hopes will appeal to a broad-based constituency...
...polls. "I love 'em," he gloats. And well he should. His straw-poll upset of Mondale in Wisconsin seemed to bear out his intense organizational effort in the state (one aide spent six weeks in a single congressional district). But thus far Cranston has been unable to attract broad popular support. As he took a Fourth of July ride on a ferry across Puget Sound to Winslow, Wash. (pop. 2,420), and paraded amid bagpipers and bellydancers there, he was met by quizzical stares from onlookers wondering who the tanned and gaunt stranger...
...like any other smart young American dreamer, Murphy is marketing his broad appeal in four major media: TV, records, concerts and movies. Consider this jet-blast ride to stardom...