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...problem, as Caplan defines it, is that the future may be as close--or as far--as the next 10 years...
...role," says Anchor Gardner. No drastic departures from ABC's successful formula are planned. NBC has rounded up the required roster of former Olympians -- Gymnast Mary Lou Retton, Swimmer John Naber, High Jumper Dwight Stones -- as expert analysts, and is preparing taped features similar to ABC's "Up Close and Personal" reports. "I think ABC has done a great job; we hope to do a great job too," says Michael Eskridge, NBC's executive vice president for the Olympics. "When you get right down to it, there are only so many ways to skin a cat." NBC officials have discussed...
...jumped around in approximate relationship to the polls. Early on he was derided as an untelegenic bore. After Atlanta, his TVQ soared. Now a backlash is setting in ("His tone is at once annoyed and complacent, that of a self-satisfied scold" -- George Will). In truth, Dukakis may be close to the ideal TV candidate: physically ungainly and ill- proportioned when seen from a distance but a compelling presence in close- up. His speaking style is a good blend of the conversational and the resonant, and he makes the canniest use of pauses since Jack Benny. That...
Because of redistricting, the election which observers called very close, pitted the two Democratic incumbents against each other. Many observers said that geography would play a large role in the voting. Vellucci won all of the Cambridge precincts and took approximately 40 percent of the vote in Somerville...
...problem, as Caplan defines it, is that the future may be as close--or as far--as the next 10 years...