Word: crimed
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...these swing voters were within his reach: among those now favoring Bush, 27% say they once considered going for Dukakis. He could not close the sale with these potential supporters because he could neither inspire them nor fend off Bush's relentless attacks on him as a marshmallow where crime and national defense are concerned...
...tell their story of trouble in Nirvana, Hubner and Gruson adopt the usual techniques of the true-crime genre. Hearsay information is accepted as more or less reliable, and eyewitness accounts are energetically dramatized. Some characters are protected by pseudonyms. Others are fictional or, as the journalists prefer, "composites." In addition, dialogue that could not have been recorded firsthand is approximated for maximum effect. Here, for example, is a murder scene in which the victim, repeatedly shot, stabbed and bludgeoned, is as hard to kill as Rasputin...
...dollar advertising campaign that has saturated Maryland's airwaves since Labor Day. In addition, the law's opponents have used some of the $4 million supplied by the N.R.A. to canvass urban neighborhoods, proclaiming that cheap handguns are often the only means poor people have to defend themselves against crime. Outspent more than 12 to 1, defenders of the gun ban have countered by emphasizing its many influential backers, including the state's largest law-enforcement agencies. Governor Schaefer was so outraged by the N.R.A.'s campaign that he is starring in a TV spot on behalf of gun control...
...segregated local elections. Determined to boost the number of black voters in order to prove that they preferred officially sponsored "reform" to violent revolution, the government banned 18 antiapartheid organizations in February for organizing a boycott of the racially divided balloting. In June the government declared it a crime to advocate a boycott, but many defiant black clergymen and academics urged one anyway...
...hard it is to regard Bush and Dukakis in these epic terms. Viewed as comparatively little men at the time of their nominations, both have, if anything, been diminished by the campaigns they have waged. The ugliness of Bush's exploitation of the pseudo issues of patriotism and crime has almost been rivaled by Dukakis' timorous inability to articulate a rationale for his candidacy. From canned rhetoric recited off TelePrompTers to the omnipresent voice-overs of deceptive campaign ads, the candidates' messages have woefully failed to clarify the choice facing the nation...