Word: dosed
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...more than the invisible-man version perfected by Bush. The difference is the heart of Quayle's salvation strategy. He staggered through the election branded an overprivileged airhead. As candidates or incumbents, Vice Presidents often attract some derision. For the young golf addict, it was a nearly lethal dose. "I came to the office adding a bit of luster to that ridicule," he muses. Allies advised him to go underground, to avoid risks. But with escalating speculation that Bush would dump him in 1992, Quayle and his advisers decided that inactivity was the biggest risk...
Evidently Mikhail Gorbachev is willing to tolerate capitalist-style "contradictions" in his attempt to fuel economic reform with a dose of democracy. In any case, the heavy Soviet lid has been lifted, and the voices from inside the box -- above all, the voices of ever resilient Russian intellectualism -- are being heard in ways and forums unimaginable 20 years ago. If the democratic experiment has so far failed to improve the economy, it has radically altered the arts and the mass media...
Telemarketing would not be the complete answer for small towns, because it generally offers mostly minimum-wage jobs. Several studies have found that the full blossoming of a high-tech economy comes only after it receives a heavy dose of defense contracts. The bulk of that money currently goes to the country's heavily populated coastal regions, which have the most congressional representation. Says Tom Daniels, associate professor of regional and community planning at Kansas State: "Look where all the defense dollars are going, and you can see we are creating a bicoastal economy...
...long as we get our daily dose of Rather, Letterman and Win, Lose or Draw, the first Sesame Street generation will be happy, content to remain the same. Let us accept our passivity...
...sign they want to give [the Kennedy School] another dose of academics," said Jack Wagner, political science department chair at the University of Michigan...