Word: buttons
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...Durgin gets an offer for a pro tryout, he'll give it a shot. He thinks the Harvard football program has prepared him well. "We've been taught to play a game of controlled aggression--you have to button down your helmet and hit, but you've got to be thinking...
...first, I went out of curiosity," Crone says. "Then I started finding really good buys." He mentions buys like 75 cents to a dollar for cotton, button-down shirts and a dollar or two for pants...
...presents a dilemma: the three major candidates do not deserve the presidency, and most votes for one will be votes cast against the others. Surely, the voters are reminded, there are gradations of evil. Surely, many reason, Carter is worth supporting, if only to keep Reagan away from the button and the Supreme Court. The argument is sound in some ways; Carter is pertibly less unnerving than Reagan. But the difference between the men is not large enough to warrant support of Carter. If the incumbent represented the spirit of the Democratic Party, if he stood even in name...
...Carter came to the shores of Lake Erie, she shook hands with him, "looked him right in the eye," and liked what looked back. Betty worked hard for Jimmy in 1976, but now she says she's "ashamed" of what she did. This year, she's hiding a Reagan button in her unionbought drawer. If the boss saw it, she whispers, he'd be awfully...
Perhaps, but U.A.W. officials believe that the Japanese are determined to keep their U.S. plants nonunion, fearing that organization might make Honda's management style unworkable. The U.A.W. and Honda are not taking the hat-and-button battle lightly, nor is the NLRB, which is trying to mediate the dispute. The outcome could affect the U.A.W.'s hopes of unionizing a much bigger prize: a 2,000-worker plant to be built in Marysville, where Honda aims to turn out 10,000 Accords monthly...