Word: dispatches
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...them. "We pack some power." Dallas, with over 900,000 people, seventh biggest metropolis in the nation, is the largest city with a manager form of government. It wants the world to know that politics has no place in municipal services here. Sewers and garbage are attended to with dispatch. Potholes-called chuckholes in Dallas-are supposedly filled within three hours. Dallas is a clean family town. In preparation for the convention, a "Haul a Heap" crusade towed away 4,418 abandoned cars...
DIED. George Gallup, 82, quintessential quantifier of American public opinion for more than five decades on issues ranging from toothpaste tastes to presidential preferences; of a heart attack; in Thun, Switzerland. An Iowa farm boy who grew restless on a summer job interviewing readers of the St. Louis Post-Dispatch, he devised, for a Ph.D. thesis, sampling techniques that sought to account for the diversity of potential respondents; he put these techniques to work for newspapers, then for advertising...
...Minnesotan was interested enough in Feinstein to dispatch Johnson to San Francisco on July 5. He had a 60-minute talk with Feinstein, probing for anything in her medical history or finances?or those of her husband Richard Blum, a wealthy investor?that might prove troublesome if she were selected. On the following Sunday, the New York Times carried a report, apparently inspired by a Mondale aide who favored Feinstein, that Mondale had been disappointed in Ferraro when the two had talked. Mondale called Ferraro the next day to tell her that the story was untrue. Ferraro did not seem...
...senators pay dearly for her favors. Only a young man named Ulysses has the key to her chaste heart. He will free Erendira by killing Grandma-he will try, anyway, with a knife, explosives and a ton of rat poison-but the tenacious crone is as hard to dispatch as Rasputin, or the Roadrunner, or a nightmare of repression...
...Soviet press wondered why the U.S. Government declined to do what the Kremlin would not hesitate to do: simply dispatch the pesky protesters to some remote place for the duration of the Games. Indeed, many foreigners do not quite understand that U.S. civil liberties protections would rule out such a roundup of trouble makers. Soviet editorialists suggested an untoward affinity, even close links, between the L.A. protesters and the U.S. "ruling circles." Last week the Reagan Administration emphatically denied any affiliation. Balsiger had dispatched several letters and Mailgrams to White House Deputy Chief of Staff Michael Deaver last winter, urging...