Word: buttoned
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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Tommy Griscom, 38, Baker's loyal aide, came in for his share. "Tommy, did somebody press the down button on your elevator shoes?" He was another Tennessee boy who could roll with it, even at 5 ft. 6 in., and with quick wit he traveled through the Washington jungle unscathed. "You know," whispered a former White House staffer last week, "we sometimes joked that Tommy was the most powerful man in the country. He had a President who was disengaged. Baker was not an administrator. Tommy paid attention to the details...
...Greek American comes bearing a gift: a Dukakis-for-President button with blinking lights. Then the two candidates sit down alone -- no aides, no translators -- for a 90-minute session, the longest of their three meetings in as many weeks. Jackson complains about the inequities of the delegate- selection system and argues for a tougher stand against South Africa's racial policies. Dukakis listens sympathetically. Looming over the meeting is a too- hot topic that remains pretty much unspoken: whether Dukakis should offer Jackson the second spot on the ticket (which he won't) and what will happen when...
...superman myth is reinforced by the fact that he can "push a button" and destroy large swaths of the globe. But that is a wholly unused and wholly unusable power. In reality, the American President is one of the least powerful chief executives in the West. He cannot even pass his own budget, a minimal attribute of governance...
...There are 13 people in my lab. I was the only one getting my mail dumped into that filthy box," said Principato. "I was the only one wearing aunion button too. I don't know if that's why shedid it, but I was the only...
...shambles. Always his favorite place, the diamond had become his only haven, and every night he got a hit. "Damn, I'm going bad," he muttered aside one night to one of the reporters, who said, "Huh?" Rose threw up his arms. "Hell, I'm hitting everything on the button, and only one a night is falling...