Word: deployment
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...Bush- Quayle campaign. And P.F. Bentley continued his exclusive photographic coverage of the Governor. The result is more than just Clinton's story. "You have to understand all those campaigns to write insightfully about why Clinton has been so successful," says senior editor Joelle Attinger, who helped coordinate and deploy the troops...
Although the exact message to voters is still being fashioned, an organized effort to build support is taking shape. Republican advanceman Joe Canzeri has been making sure that crowds at Perot rallies have been plentiful and telegenic. Tim Kraft, who handled Jimmy Carter's field forces in 1976, will deploy 30 operatives across the country. Each coordinator will be charged with setting up offices in three or four states and zeroing in on voters within each congressional district. Most of the $4 million raised by the campaign so far ($3.2 million of it from Perot's pocket) has been spent...
...with a clipboard. Other statewide groups have been equally effective in marshaling support and finding their way through the legal thicket. Perot's California organization, which collected more than 1 million signatures to place him on the ballot, has drawn up a 26-page strategy manual on how to deploy volunteers and sent a copy to the main office urging its adoption nationwide. Some Perot partisans contend that paid political consultants contracted by the main office are simply moving in and completing a process the volunteers started months ago on their own time...
...latest version of Star Wars is in trouble. The first tremor came in a May 15 memo by Assistant Secretary of Defense David Chu leaked to the press last week. Haste could make billions of dollars in waste, warned Chu. The department's top weapons analyst says plans to deploy 100 ground-based interceptors by 1997 -- rather than 2002, as he recommends -- to fend off small-scale nuclear attacks cannot proceed without major cost overruns and performance problems. In the rush to deploy, he says, the military will have to design and start buying SDI before any of the missiles...
...despised by the black community, was deliberately holding his men back. "They want us to burn ourselves out," claimed a caller to KJLH, a black radio station that opened its airwaves to listeners after the city erupted. Another caller noted that residents in white neighborhoods were able to deploy private security forces to keep the rioters at bay. "Who can we call to get someone to protect our house...