Word: conventioners
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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For Broadway, Nunn insisted on a completely new book and an equally new look. Central to his vision is a set made of towers painted to look like concrete and placed on turntables so they swivel to become a hotel lobby, an airport, a convention hall, a bedroom. To some...
Dukakis fashioned side-by-side landslides in Ohio and Indiana, routing Jackson by margins of greater than two-to-one. He also padded his substantial lead in national convention delegates and ratified his status as faraway favorite to win the Democratic nomination and meet Bush in the fall campaign.
Dukakis' aides expressed confidence about theprimaries still to come, and said they expecttheir candidate will be able to command a majorityof convention delegates by the time the Democraticprimary season ends on June 7.
Going after the opposition serves another purpose as well. One way to encourage peace in the family is to focus hostility on the tribe across the street, and political parties operate on the same principle. Until the convention in Atlanta confirms last week's verdict in New York, and until...
...nation's busiest, costs just 25 cents for a round trip (vs. $1 for a subway or bus ride) and sails along with a $26 million annual deficit. Nevertheless, several prospective services are being proposed by entrepreneurs. In San Diego two firms have proposed water-taxi services to shuttle conventioneers and tourists between the city's new waterfront convention center and hotels and restaurants around the bay. In Detroit investors hope to re-establish international ferry service across the Detroit River to Windsor, Ontario. To such visionaries, the possibilities of doing business on water seem limitless. John Westlake, chairman...