Word: duking
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...little bit later, Governor Michael S. Dukakis enters with a small entourage and the dancers take a brief respite to gather around the newly elected chief executive. Were it not for the Harvard and Currier House banners hanging from the wall, a casual observer might have mistaken the Duke for Dick Clark and the dancers for participants on American Bandstand. After the blessing, Dukakis exits and the Clash's "Rock the Casbah" fills the cavernous building...
Armed with red, white and blue charts detailing the Soviet military threat, Defense Secretary Caspar Weinberger marched up to Capitol Hill to erect a defiant rampart around his $239 billion share of the $848 billion budget. After three days of crossfire from Congressmen of both parties, the Iron Duke of Defense emerged battered but unbending. "We simply cannot reduce defense spending any further without undermining the security of the United States," he adamantly declared...
...Union speeches have come to be prepared over the years, by Republicans and Democrats alike. They are now writ ten and filmed before a President be gins speaking and aired only minutes after he finishes, leaving no time for anyone to digest what he actually has to say. Observes Duke University Political Scientist James David Barber: "The form that has evolved here is really intriguing. It's the speech vs. the film, then the speech vs. the film vs. the analysts...
Confronted with these figures, many universities have been cutting back large programs and ending marginal ones. Columbia eliminated Egyptology, the University of Michigan closed its geography department, and the State University of New York at Albany is phasing out its Ph.D. program in French literature. Duke decided that its education department was not distinguished enough and shut it down. As they sort and cull, most universities are committed to maintaining what they do best. "You don't destroy one of the greatest classics departments in the world because there is not a great demand for Latin teachers," maintains Richard...
Whatever the merits of those arguments, the contrasting styles of the unconventional Brown, 44, and the traditional Deukmejian (pronounced Duke-may-gin), 54, were readily apparent as the new Governor's term began. When Brown took office eight years ago, he contended that state and national resources were limited, that continual economic growth was neither possible nor desirable and that "small is beautiful." To dramatize that view, Brown held a simple, seven-minute swearing-in ceremony, concluding with the order, "C'mon, let's get to work." There were no parties. He drove a battered 1974 Plymouth...