Word: conventioners
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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Wait a minute. Isn't this 1985, a good three years before the next Republican presidential convention? Yes, but some politicians believe that it is never too early to slap a back in pursuit of a dream. So there was George Bush, just back from an eleven-day official trip...
The dilemma was complicated by the fact that only last month the government of Prime Minister Shimon Peres provoked a national uproar with a perceived departure from that principle. To secure the release of three Israeli soldiers who had been captured and held by Palestinians during the 1982 invasion of...
Buchwald's satirical assessment appeared close to the truth last week. The attacks from the White House provided Cuomo with the biggest splurge of public attention and sympathy he has received since his "Shining City" keynote speech transfixed the Democratic National Convention in San Francisco last July.
President Bok, who has traditionally taken a keen interest in athletic matters, as well as the seven other Ivy League presidents chose not to attend the special convention, which drew college heads than ever before. Reardon and Fox both suggested that the convention's lack of bearing on Harvard prompted...
"If he felt it would make a real impact on Harvard, he would have gone to the convention," said Reardon.