Word: campaigners
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...Island nuclear accident. She broadcast live reports from the damaged reactor -- borrowing a producer's tennis shoes so she could stand atop the microwave truck in the rain without slipping off -- and got her first major exposure on the CBS Evening News. After a stint covering the 1980 presidential campaign, she was assigned to the State Department, where she impressed her bosses with her hard work and excellent sources. Says former CBS News president Richard Salant: "I think she was the best State Department reporter we ever...
During the campaign, the L.D.P. repeatedly demonstrated just how out of touch it had become. One L.D.P. legislator suggested that the consumption tax would be less painful if it were an even 4% instead of 3%. Another party member said farmers were only intelligent enough to do manual work. Credit for the greatest blunder, however, went to Agriculture Minister Hisao Horinouchi, who said, "It is wrong for women to come to the forefront of politics." Pausing just long enough to take one foot out of his mouth and insert the other, Horinouchi then attacked Doi, the popular Socialist leader. "British...
Seizing on voter disillusionment, the J.S.P. mounted a stunningly effective campaign. Its trump card was Doi, a charismatic politician whose forthright statements and energy offered a refreshing change from the dour-faced, dark- suited politicians fielded by the L.D.P. Campaigning vigorously, Doi and her opposition colleagues promised to rescind the consumption tax and oppose further liberalization of farm imports. "The people are aware of how politics affects their daily life," Doi said during a campaign tour. "It's the politicians who are behind the times...
...Duke sauntered into the Convention Center with Neil Diamond's "America" blaring in the background. The song, like the speech that followed it, was corny and cliched, but for the first time during the campaign Dukakis was able to make an emotional connection with his audience...
...added that his likely candidacy for treasurer and the ballot campaign naturally go together, particularly if Crane seeks another term. "I can very easily say that the system is wrong for allowing the treasurer to stay in that long," Malone said...