Word: broads
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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Dole tried his own version of a broad appeal. Unlike Kemp and Robertson, he has the stature and maturity to be credible. But he based his claim on his personal conviction, bordering on obsession, that he is better equipped to run the country. His constant attempt to depict himself as the man of steel tempered in adversity, in contrast to Bush as an empty Brooks Bros. suit, was a promising beginning. But there was no ending, no compelling message extending beyond Dole's own considerable grit and intelligence...
Bush's speeches on deficit reductions without tax increases, on education and the drug problem, tended toward the broad and bland. His managers used negative TV advertising reluctantly, poking at Dole on the air only in media markets where the Senator struck first. The Bushies enjoyed the front runner's luxury of emphasizing the positive -- a biospot, an endorsement by Barry Goldwater, a montage stressing their man's leadership ability. By the last weekend the scent of a blowout was in the air. In North Carolina, Missouri and Oklahoma, however, Dole still seemed to have a chance. Bush strategists added...
...answer: yes and yes. A 1949 graduate of Princeton's Woodrow Wilson School of Public and International Affairs, he will return as a professor of international economic policy. He will also become chairman of the Manhattan- based James D. Wolfensohn investment firm. Volcker picked Princeton because the school emphasizes broad economic issues. Wolfensohn's allure: the firm is small enough to let Volcker have a major influence, and the job is expected to pay more than $1 million a year. Volcker's annual salary as head...
...with the spread of public art since the 1970s, spurred by a 1963 federal policy that one-half of 1% of the construction budget for Government buildings must go for the purchase of art. At a time when the aims of modernism and the tastes of a broad public are not always in accord, some of that art, like Tilted Arc, has met with hostility or indifference. One federal judge in Baltimore even organized his judicial colleagues in a bid to block a George Sugarman sculpture planned for the plaza of the courthouse where he worked, insisting that the piece...
...think it's going to be a broad-gauged sort of review at all," said John R. Marquand, who is secretary of the faculty. He said the Faculty council would limit its inquiries to the Undergraduate Council's finances...