Word: columbus
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...briefly added an endorsement from the Columbus, Ohio, NAACP to his union support, but that was before the group's president reluctantly reversed course under pressure from national headquarters. Melanie J. Mitchell said she was acting to avoid jeopardizing the chapter's tax-exempt status as a non-profit organization...
Long before I reach Arizona, I leave Highway I-10 and bump along ranch roads that bring the border back into view. In Columbus, N. Mex., which the Mexican revolutionary Pancho Villa raided in 1916, John Alcorn, 69, gestures in the direction of the border. "Had 16 teeth out and a new set of dentures made over in Palomas last week," he says, massaging his gums. "Would have cost me $2,000 in the U.S. I paid $600 over there, and the dentist did a damn good job." Health care is a relatively new economic trade-off, but the principles...
...high and prowing the wind. It is his father's walk, the dark-suited, dignified swagger that one saw in the early 1950s when Prescott Bush of Connecticut crossed the Senate floor. On a dazzling day, the blue sky washed cloudless, George Bush performed such a swagger at the Columbus airport...
...first stop of the day, Bush addressed 600 supporters in a Knights of Columbus hall in South River, N.J., and cautioned against relaxing the nation's military strength because of peace overtures from Moscow...
...Bush strategists to plan the kind of mischief they have perpetrated in Massachusetts. "We're going to put enough into New York to make Dukakis come back to hold us off," promises deputy campaign manager Rich Bond. Sure enough, Dukakis was scheduled to come to the Empire State on Columbus Day. Dukakis will also have to devote more time to Pennsylvania, which on paper seemed promising for the Democrats this year. Now it has become open country...