Word: deliverance
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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"One last point," he says, his voice making its usual high climb but betraying no awareness that he is about to deliver the line of his life: "This is an exciting choice." Quickly he looks down at the rostrum, hunting for the next sentence in the speech. He continues: "I...
Mondale and his advisers soon dropped the whole idea of selecting a candidate on the traditional basis of ticket-balancing geography. He needed much more than a Vice President who could deliver the electoral votes of a home state. When a Gallup poll showed Reagan 19 points ahead, the impulse...
Now the Mondale advisers knew that their boss might very likely turn to one of the two women, but they did not know which. As he worked on the convention acceptance speech he is ready to deliver this week, Mondale kept his short list of candidates in mind. He was...
Reilly dialed Ferraro's hotel in San Francisco, got the Queens Congresswoman on the phone and handed the receiver to Mondale. "Here goes," said Mondale to his aides, and into the mouthpiece, to Ferraro: "I'd like you to run with me ... [pause] Great!" He passed the phone back to...
Although electronic epistles have so far shown more promise than popularity, Federal Express hopes its entry will be a hit. Unlike services offered by rivals such as Western Union and MCI, ZapMail will not require customers to use computer keyboards to send messages. Instead, couriers will pick up and rush...