Word: crowded
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...Democratic strategist of his fellow pros: "This is a fairly liberal bunch, and we saw Biden trying to appropriate the liberal mantle with rhetorical tricks." Accusations of plagiarism thus hurt as almost nothing else could. They turned Biden's strong point, the passionate oratory that could bring a crowd to its feet, into a subject for ridicule and fed deep suspicions about his ability to be President...
...House of Representatives hummed with excitement as Congressmen and Senators, many with their spouses and children in tow, awaited the man of the hour. When Costa Rican President Oscar Arias Sanchez arrived, the crowd swept to its feet as shouts of "Bravo! Bravo!" echoed through the chamber. That exuberant welcome was a measure of the respect that Arias has won on Capitol Hill for the peace plan conceived by him and signed two months ago by five Central American Presidents in Guatemala City. Arias' 30-minute address to the informal joint gathering of Congress was teeming with platitudes and somewhat...
While the Journal's editorial stance seems to the right of Reagan, Phillips rejects such a standard of measurement on the ground that the paper's conservatism predates the arrival of the Reagan crowd ("We're happy to have them in our camp, but we're not in theirs"). For the past 15 years, editorials have been the province of Robert L. Bartley, who is lean, incisive and full of certitude. His combativeness came out in a famously stormy dinner with the Journal's news staff in Washington in 1980, shortly before he won a Pulitzer Prize. But editorial writers...
...they passed into generic use long before AT&T's divestiture), anyone can employ them. Many consumers no longer know whose directories they are using. Southern Bell calls its 242 editions the "Real Yellow Pages," while other publishers have adopted distinctive names in order to stand out from the crowd. GTE, for example, publishes 51 editions of the Neighborhood Phone Book. Nobody knows which editions consumers use the most when they are faced with a choice, but industry-wide surveys to sort out such preferences are getting under...
Shapiro says she thinks a bar scene would encourage people to mingle more. "It seems like students might meet more people in a bar," she says. "They might get to know a different crowd than they would see at parties and stuff...