Word: dinners
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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Hurrying back to Washington, he shared dinner with his staff on Air Force One, still glowing from the grandest tributes he had ever received. Someplace over the Rockies he reflected on the reason for his full-spirited participation in this battle, traveling 25,000 miles, speaking at 30 rallies in 16 states and raising $10 million for the party. "You always think in this business that your policies will last," Reagan said. "About then, I remember my successor as California Governor, Jerry Brown. He went in and changed everything that I had ever done...
...Bush it was a victory without drum rolls, a majority without a meaningful mandate. The single-hued certainty of the TV tote boards left no ambiguity as to the verdict. Once again the American people had chosen a Republican President before much of the nation had even digested dinner. Yet on this 200th anniversary of the election of George Washington, there was a palpable hesitancy as America cast its votes. Rather than ratifying the Reagan realignment, a nation of ticket splitters strengthened Democratic control of Congress. The result, whether conscious or not, is certain to exacerbate the deadlock of democracy...
...four holes left to play. Several hundred dollars in the red, he pressed (essentially doubling the stakes) on the 16th and then again on the 18th. Had he lost he would have had to cough up a nonexistent $1,200; instead he ended up $800 ahead. That night, after dinner, he went out and gambled and won again, pitting his extraordinary hand-eye coordination against local pool hustlers. Norman has not forgotten the match-play skills he acquired during those early years. He is a three-time winner of the Suntory World Match-Play Championship, a British tournament that provides...
...remember exactly who won those games. But both of us were more than willing to conspire to create drama. Always it came down to the final play of the game, the clock running out as dinner time approached. It always ended with a goal line stand, a fourth down and one situation, and the inevitable two-point conversion effort. And then the fight song, and the finger jabbing. And then game day would return that next afternoon...
Participating students pledge not to eat dinner in University dining halls, and Harvard will donate the money it saves to a women's cooperative in Nicaragua and a group of farmers in rural Kenya, Marx said...