Word: exception
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...presidential election, where name recognition is nearly universal and news coverage is unending, there is no justification for televised ads. They can tell us about nothing, except the skill of the media consultants who produced them. They serve only to muddle thought, to stir up rancor, to provide a false front for the failure to address the issues...
...could also grow 7% a year without getting any bigger relative to the economy as a whole. Both would be growing at 7%, just as with a family whose income goes up a bit each year and therefore feels it can afford to take on a little more debt. Except that in the case of the U.S. economy, still the largest in the world, taking on an extra 7% in debt amounts to taking on an additional $175 billion...
...taped for TV. It may work better in that format. Even onstage, if audience members can forget the Beckett masterpiece that is being obliterated, this Godot calls to mind some of the best surreal comic sketches on Saturday Night Live -- a show on which all the principal actors except the pristine Abraham have appeared...
After running a disappointing third in Iowa, Michael Dukakis had won New Hampshire, then captured Texas and Florida on Super Tuesday. His bland but upbeat style had outlasted all of his opponents except Al Gore and Jesse Jackson. New York State was the last hurdle: either Dukakis would win and eliminate Gore, or the nomination would be up for grabs. Dukakis decided he needed the endorsement of New York City Mayor Ed Koch...
Both teams had long since been eliminated from the Ivy race. There was nothing to play for. Except The Game...