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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...media demanded that Sen. Paul Simon explain how his fanciful public works-balanced budget plan would work. In the same vein, the media should grill Jackson on how he would finance his ambitious spending proposals, which include hugh increases in everything from education to social security to farm subsidies...

Author: By Andrew J. Bates, | Title: It's Time to Take Jesse Seriously | 4/5/1988 | See Source »

...project is scheduled to culminate in a forum held in February where graduate students will explain their schools to undergraduates attending the forum and answer questions from the audience...

Author: By Liam T.A. Ford, | Title: Grad Students Fill Gap With GAPSC | 4/1/1988 | See Source »

Though some explain the move away from Florida as a response to congestion, other factors may be at work. "Down here it's not against the law to go topless on the beach," says Bill E. Fittipodi, beverage manager for the Sheraton Hotel on South Padre Island. "One of the events at the hotel is the tan-line contest. A well-known battle cry during the contest is `skin...

Author: By Charles P. Kempf, | Title: Beaches, Beer and Bathing Suits | 3/25/1988 | See Source »

Addesa did not mean to be insulting, but was simply trying to explain that the Crimson was not as talented a team as past Harvard teams. Still, it managed to play like those past teams...

Author: By Julio R. Varela, | Title: Underdogs | 3/22/1988 | See Source »

Perhaps these comments more than anything else explain Jesse Jackson's growing appeal to liberal white voters. In the kingdom of the bland, the preacher who has got a sermon to sing is king. That may explain why Jackson received 19% of the vote in Dukakis' home state, even though blacks make up just 3% of the Massachusetts voting-age population. At a Jackson rally in Little Rock, a onetime Simon delegate who had switched her allegiance told the crowd, "I'm tired of trying to figure out who's going to win. I want to vote for the person...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Three-Way Gridlock | 3/21/1988 | See Source »

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