Word: duked
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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This led to penetrating give-and-take between Dukakis and Simon on whether Republicans will come around to supporting the Arias peace plan--"I think so," Simon said. "It makes so much sense."--Gephardt and the Duke on how we can prevent the NSC from running amok in the future--"Well, it begins with the fellow in the Oval Office," the Massachusetts governor said. "I've been a chief executive for nine years and..."--and DuPont and Haig on what to do when the Soviets cheat on treaties--"That's a good question, Pete...
Still, the question has to be asked: who was The Big Winner? It certainly wasn't the Duke, with his lemon-sucking face and even sourer responses. He's crazy if he thinks he'll sweep into office with the shrill yelp that aid to the contras is "A VIOLATION OF INTERNATIONAL LAW!!!" Turns out it's forbidden by something called the Rio Treaty--one treaty, at least, which the Soviets don't seem to have violated...
...Crimson is looking to win its first semifinal contest in four trips to the Final Four. Last season, Harvard fell to eventual champion Duke, 3-1, in the semis in Durham...
Even CBS Chairman William Paley went along with the deal, thus giving up an enterprise he spent decades building. Paley started the division in 1938, when he bought a small record company for $700,000. He hired Artists Duke Ellington and Bing Crosby, among others, and introduced the first LP record in 1948. CBS took chances on new artists, signing both Bob Dylan and Springsteen when they were unknowns...
...Name a group of important younger American critics, philosophers or historians," demands Jacoby. The fact is the naming comes hard, even on campuses, where the book has generated particular attention -- as well as trivial pursuit of rebuttal candidates. At Duke, for example, a recent faculty klatch turned up isolated, fiftyish nominees such as Susan Sontag and Joan Didion, but no fresh generation...