Word: cold
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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Seeds of this disaster were sown in the frozen earth of Iowa. Just before midnight on the night of the caucuses, after he barely scraped by in third place, Dukakis sat in his hotel suite munching on cold cuts. Most staffers had repaired to the crowded bar, leaving only a small coterie with the candidate, who had discarded his ever present coat and tie. His wife Kitty, exhausted from a sleepless night, had kicked her shoes off and yearned for bed. But top aides were troubled. They blasted Dukakis for failing to define himself. "Governor, you never gave the people...
...craft. Novelist Tom Clancy featured it in his best seller Red Storm Rising, and Testor Corp. is selling detailed plastic-model F-19 kits for $9.50 each. Best of all, MicroProse, a software company based in Hunt Valley, Md., has produced a $69 computer program that lets would-be cold warriors -- and mild-mannered magazine writers -- try their hand at flying the world's most clandestine airplane...
...candidates were encouraged to talk about everything but what was happening under their feet. The ground was slipping out from under Americans -- to foreign investors, to revenue collection that has become a vast servicing of our debt, to cold war commitments that do not exude power but exhaust it, to involuntary and unconfessed curtailments of our postwar imperial mission. Who could advert to these amid the smoke of muskets and the feeble blaze of opposed "likabilities...
...Bush years. The new President enters office with no clear mandate for imposing the tough solutions that will be necessary to tackle the nation's festering budget crisis. Nor has he propounded a vision for fin-de-siecle America or for a world that is moving beyond the cold war. Nevertheless, he won the 1988 election with a toughness that surprised even his friends, and now he faces the opportunity and the challenge of serving as the nation's 41st President...
...thing, it's cold. Take last year's Game when players left the field with frostbite and fans left the stands kind of tipsy. Lambeau Field didn't hold a candle to Yale Bowl that day. For another thing, it's Harvard and Yale alumni. They don't wear parkas and they don't drink beer. For them it's fur and whiskey sours...