Word: downers
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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Speakes, who would not win a personal popularity contest among the White House media corps, has nurtured the most successful era of public esteem for a President that we have had in the past 40 years, even including the Iran-arms downer. A predecessor, Jody Powell, who was Jimmy Carter's press secretary and might win the corps's popularity vote, presided over a disastrous loss of presidential prestige. Is there cause and effect? Is the great old White House press corps hooked on calamity? Can Good-Guy Marlin break the cycle...
...Queen Nancy," this from the darling of the couturiers? Whispers in Washington still have it that the drug issue was forced on her by the political handlers. In fact, advisers like Mike Deaver and Sheila Tate argued against it. Too negative, they said. A jungle. "Yes, it was a downer," admits Mrs. Reagan. "They didn't want me to get into it." But get into it she did, and even though the press itself is now fretting that it might have gone overboard in its breathless chronicling of the war on drugs, she is holding firm in her conviction that...
John A. Dunton-Downer...
...University has modified two suites in the Yard, both on the ground floor of Canaday B for handicapped use. But with no other accessible dorm in the Yard, handicapped students say their social life is limited. "I can't go to visit any of my friends," said Downer, who lives in Canaday B. "I can't even see anyone upstairs in my own entry...
Although he has found moving around the Yard difficult, Downer is pleased with the tours the University gave him of all the available rooms in the upperclass houses. He says he was allowed to choose the room that best accommodated his need to use a wheelchair. All handicapped freshmen discuss options with College officials prior to the spring lottery to determine their house for the following year...