Word: ed
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...anymore. Crabs used to be like fleas. I'm lucky to get a few bushels." Ken Seigler, who works Swansboro's Queens Creek, has seen his income from clams and oysters drop 50% in seven years; this year he was forced to apply for food stamps. New Jersey Fisherman Ed Maliszewski has used his small boat for only two weeks this year. He is trying to bail out, and so are others...
...Grand Old Party will try to wrap itself in the grand old flag. Republicans will talk a lot about patriotism and family values and "moral strength". They'll also pander to their special interest groups: fundamentalist christians, Right-to-Lifers and big business. Absent this year will be Ed Meese and the Teamster's union...
Faculty members and students who oppose the cutbacks have mounted a drive to oust the school's president, Ed Roach, whose appointment was pushed by Pickens. If that fails, Pickens' critics plan to make his heavy-handed treatment of the school an issue in this year's state elections. Pickens dismisses his antagonists as a "few noisy malcontents." Says he: "We're only trying to create a quality school to keep our top-notch young people in the Panhandle...
...time -- just you wait and see. His mother would take up the theme: All had happened for the best. Dukakis even came to take a kind of perverse credit for the loss, emphasizing that "I should never have lost," and "It was mine to lose," and "I blew it." Ed King was not a big enough figure to do in Michael Dukakis. Only Dukakis could do that...
While Dukakis was attracting talent to himself at Harvard, Ed King was proving an irresistible lure for incompetents and their predators in the statehouse. Leftovers from Dukakis' time, realizing how good things had been in the "bad old days," leaked embarrassing material on their clown-king, channeling it through Dukakis' government-in-exil e to the Boston Globe. The bad people were undoing Dukakis' reforms, and he went after them with his first ferocity, encouraging the leaks, playing up the grudge match he would win with King...