Word: deale
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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Dinkins' campaign manager Bill Lynch insists that the new mayor's consensus- building style will enhance his ability to deal with New York's seemingly intractable problems. Says Lynch: "The image that you have to be a tough guy to be mayor of New York is wrong." Perhaps, but the choices that the new mayor will face are certainly going to be tough. Says Ray Harding, head of the Liberal Party and Giuliani's earliest political ally: "David Dinkins brings tranquillity, and that's evidently what New York wants." As tough times hit, New York might need much more than...
...scheduled to face trial on felony charges relating to his activities in the Iran-contra scandal, Richard Secord copped a plea. The retired Air Force Major General admitted that he had lied to congressional investigators when he denied knowing that $13,800 from the Iran arms-sales deal went to pay for a security system at Oliver North's home...
...deadpanned nonstop alliterations into the phone as he promoted an employee ("I'm putting you in charge of Pittsburgh, Peter!") and closed a contract ("Dick, what's the deal with the deal?"). The 1982 Federal Express commercial featuring the fast-talking Mr. Spleen struck a chord in frantic managers everywhere. Last week it was rated the best ad of the 1980s in a Top Ten list compiled by the One Club, an industry group...
...deal with global warming and other environmental issues without the cooperation of one-fifth of the people on earth...
Yesterday, with the Wall still locking people in, such talk might have been hard to believe. Today, with the barrier chipped, battered and permeable, it is a good deal easier to accept. In the end it does not matter whether Eastern Europe's Communists are reforming out of conviction or if, as one East German protest banner put it, THE PEOPLE LEAD -- THE PARTY LIMPS BEHIND. What does matter is that the grim, fearsome Wall, for almost three decades a marker for relentless oppression, has overnight become something far different, a symbol of the failure of regimentation to suppress...