Word: caravans
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...Bill Clinton and Al Gore, Iowa last week became their own Field of Dreams. A shimmering summer's day was just beginning its slow fade into dusk as the eight-bus caravan pulled into Manchester for a carefully orchestrated "unscheduled" stop. The local Democrats had done their part -- a crowd of nearly 1,000 had been waiting for several hours to gambol in the limelight. Gore, fast becoming the Ed McMahon of political warm-up acts, gave his patter- perfect introduction, complete with the mawkish reminder that Clinton's father died three months before Clinton was born. Then Clinton clambered...
Take Anna, a 33-year-old mother of two from Baku, who once worked as a chemical analyst in a hospital. She now lives in a caravan site outside of Be-er Sheba, where little employment is available for even the native Israelis who live in the area...
...Nixon episode came two weeks after the Bush campaign caravan stumbled into a California brier patch with Ronald Reagan, who reportedly had said Bush was in trouble because "he doesn't seem to stand for anything." Reagan denied the story, but a meeting between the two was set up at Reagan's Bel Air home, traditionally off limits for photographers and reporters. In the heated campaign environment, it seemed like a Reagan chill. Last week Reagan was in Los Angeles' posh Regency Club clearing the air: "George Bush was with me in my crusade. I support his candidacy...
Brown, the turtlenecked Pied Piper for the young and the restless, has few short-term worries. His 800-number fund raising brings in enough cash to fuel his no-frills caravan, his now modulated debate style attracts anti- Establishment votes, and he knows the race ends on June 2 on his home turf of California. In his inimitable way, Brown may have found the perfect low- overhead formula, not for the nomination, but to endure as the last challenger to the presumptive nominee...
...contrast, Buchanan, toured 14 cities in abus caravan yesterday, criticzing the Presidentand trying to capitalize on widespread frustrationwith the economy under the Bush administration.New Hampshire has lost more than 50,000 jobs sinceDecember...