Word: ducks
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...profane guy, a talkative guy who tells it like it is, who grabs for gusto, who damns the torpedoes and plunges full speed ahead. He is a high- strung, stand-up guy, the consummate can-do guy, a guy who enjoys spending time in the company of other guys: duck hunting in Canada, drinking Scotch with Frank Sinatra at Manhattan's "21" Club, hanging around the Yankee dugout during spring training...
...slight Daffy Duck lisp comes and goes, and provides an affecting touch of vulnerability. He works the audience, improvising. On some occasions he will begin slowly, reading straight from a prepared typescript. But then, eager to give his measured words emphasis, he starts his right hand stirring the air in tight counterclockwise loops. And before long, like one of his new turbocharged cars, he revs up and zooms off, quoting himself, zigzagging between '60s idiom ("flip out," "bummer") and mild profanity, tossing away irreverent asides like empty beer cans. Hyperbole comes naturally, and repeatedly: to the analysts in Detroit...
...Bloomfield Hills one night recently, the main course was pasta in a tomato-and-duck sauce. The cook, Peggy Johnson, is Iacocca's fiancee; they became engaged in December. "Lido," explained Johnson, 34, "shot the ducks in Canada last fall." Across the table, he smiled. "Yeah, she called me up today to ask a little advice on the meal." Her comeback is quick, Iacocca- style. "I called you up to find out what the hell to do with these birds." The couple met in 1982 in the offices of the Statue of Liberty Commission where Johnson, a flight attendant...
...reality. "He's got 3 1/2 more years to make his niche in history," observes Utah Senator Orrin Hatch, an ally and admirer. Others suspect there may be less time than that, perhaps only until the 1986 midterm elections, before the President's clout is vitiated by his lame-duck status. In any case, says one White House aide, "the advice we were given coming into the second term was 'Don't give in or they'll run all over you.' If we're not tough now, we'll never have a chance...
...Capitol Hill, many legislators would like to duck the whole problem. Their strategy is to provide what De la Garza calls a "blood transfusion" to farmers in the form of a quick and major expansion of credit guarantees and buy time to figure out what longer-range reforms to make. Congress must write some sort of farm bill by Sept. 30, unless it wants to reinstitute the 1949 law, which provided much higher price supports than anyone would advocate now (all subsequent farm laws, including the one passed in 1981, technically have been amendments to the 1949 act, passed usually...