Word: dukakises
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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IT certainly wasn't current college students who voted Reagan into office in 1980, when post-baby boomers were just hitting adolescence. We're the selfish brutes who in our first presidential elections voted for Mike Dukakis, now in disgrace for trying to repair the Massachusetts economy.
The most obvious of these is the $500 million deficit in the state budget, which many have blamed on the Democratic leadership, led by Gov. Michael S. Dukakis and House Speaker George Keverian '53 (D-Everett).
Lt. Governor Evelyn Murphy, a Democratic frontrunner with former attorney general Francis X. Bellotti, is seen as the candidate closest to Dukakis, whom Democrats and Republicans alike have blamed for the state's fiscal situation.
In the early days, the Times often misstepped. Wire copy on Moon's conviction for tax evasion was doctored. The newsroom became a revolving-door workplace, with constant turnover and inexperienced staffers. During last year's presidential race, the Times, pursuing a rumor about Michael Dukakis' receiving psychiatric treatment, twisted...
De Borchgrave blames the Dukakis error on deadline pressures. "It's one boo-boo that we are faulted for every time somebody comes to interview us," he complains. But that was not the only slip. Last June the newspaper teased readers with a story about a homosexual call-boy ring...